Question

A child 4 years of age has a mother who is employed and works from home. To accomplish her daily work, she allows the child to watch television for 6 to 8 hours a day. Based upon this information, what nursing diagnosis would be applicable to this?

Answer 1

impaired parenting associated with failure to provide stimuli for growth

Step-by-step explanation:

Holistic development of a child, depends on good parent-child interactions implemented by the parents,and the need to engage in mutual practises that stimulate and promote healthy developments of the child.These practices stimulate the behavioural, cognitive, and societal interactions in child.

Generally, based on nature and nurture debate, a child development depends on the interaction between biological(brain) and societal or environmental stimuli acquired. Thus external stimuli acquired from interaction with the parents and the society are important to provide sensory inputs to complement biological development and growth in a child.

Therefore a child who is deprived of these sensory input s from lack of good parent-child interactions, with no mutual practices with the parents or the society will be impaired with needed stimuli for normal childhood growth and healthy developments.

Television does not provide stimuli for brain's growth, because it is not interactive, rather, it stimulates the pleasure area of the brain, which is not important for cognitive and behavioural development for growing child

Answer 2

Impaired parent-child interaction

Step-by-step explanation:

In this unfortunate situation which is a feature of the age of information. Parents often opt to work from home in order to save resources and provide an extra income. In doing so the stay at home parent is often tasked with child rearing. This means that there is not enough attention given to either work or child care. Here we see that the child is placed in front of a television and is left there for over 6 hours each day. This action does not provide any stimuli for the child or it does not encourage parent-child interaction. There is also the lack of sensory development since there are no other means of learning coming to the child.