A Report On Child Care

The Kids Learning Centre is a privately-owned day care facility and non-formal educational institution for children up to 12 years old. It is located at the heart of the City of Downtown, just behind The Business Building, a convenient place where parents and guardians can drop off their children safely. It operates from 6:30 AM to 6:00 PM daily, and closes only during major holidays.

4.2) If a child has an allergic reaction to something then they may need to be taking to hospital it all depends on how bad they are allergic to something. If a child has asthma they should have their inhalers if they start having an attack, then the inhaler would be giving to they while an ambulance and parents are on there way. If a child has a bump on the head and as you monitor them throughout the day and they start to drop this is a sign they may need to get checked out by a nurse.

In this program our child care providers have a hands-on interaction with the children. They guide our early learners through child directed play. The child care staff provides different learning opportunities by supplying an array of activities based on the children’s interests. This program will allow the children an opportunity to become leaders in their learning, by exploring and discovering their play environment on their own, with peers and through guidance from the staff. Although we have many open-ended play opportunities, we will have a few structured activities for the children to participate in. We find it important to keep some structure within the daily schedule as this will allow the children the

Billy is a 3 year old little boy who until recently has been a happy, playful child. He is presenting with malaise, fever, and what appears to be tiny, red blisters in his mouth and throat and beginning on his hands and feet that are painful to the touch. His mother states that he has felt bad for a couple of days and now doesn 't want to eat or drink. He is also complaining of a "tummy ache". He attends a daycare with 10 other children. His mother states that she had been "looking things up on on the internet" and thought Billy at first had the flu. Upon assessment, he is diagnosed with Coxsackie virus, also known as Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease. As Billy 's mom discovered in her internet search, "Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease" is just one of many infections that can cause mouth sores. Often a search for the symptoms of basic medical conditions can lead people to content on more serious illnesses, therefore increasing their fears that something tragic is occuring. Billy 's mom was afraid that her son had not the flu, but something much more serious. His diagnosis of Coxsackie however, relieved her

1.1 Nowadays and according to the UN convention of the right of a child: A child is considered to be a person aged from birth to 18 years, but this can vary by the countries legal system e.g. in the UK you can legally drink alcohol at 18 whilst in the USA it is 21.

Research from Child Care Aware of America found that in 2013, the average yearly cost for center-based care for infants was higher than the average annual tuition and fees at four-year public colleges in 31 states. The lack of on-campus childcare and reduced government funding, means student parents have to make their own childcare

The values and principles that underpin the childcare sector work along side the laws, rules and regulations that I follow in my everyday work at my setting. They govern things such as how many children can attend my setting, how many staff I have working each day, making sure that the children’s wants and needs are met and that they are always the main focus of any planning I do. For myself it means that I have to always make sure that I keep myself up to date with any changes in these laws and regulations and that I keep myself up to date with any training so I can always provide the best possible care I can. When planning I try to use many different curriculum’s but always making sure that they are flexible and is based upon the values

A mother of a young child called the Vermont Department on February 5 to report the possibility of a foodborne disease outbreak after her child aged 5 years and two other children of her neighbor aged 7 and 10 years became ill with a lot of vomiting and diarrhea that took place within an interval of 12 hours. The child’s sickness became severe that the mother took her to a local hospital where she was kept at the emergency department.

Observation is very important in young children because that is how you get to know a child better. While observing how a child interacts with their peers, adults, and how they behave in different settings, you are getting to know the child without speaking to them.

In the school they’ve been having a statistic cases of diphtheria, which trends out your daughter has been going to during the month. That should’ve seemingly been the reason why she got sick. 2,100 deaths have occurred freshly and more might occurred if there ain’t an antidote.

A boy, age 10 years old, was home with flu-like symptoms of headache, mild fever, and generalized pains for six days. On the sixth day, his mother had given him aspirin

As a respiratory therapist at a local hospital, I was called to the Emergency Department to await the arrival by ambulance of a 32 lb. (14.54 kg.), eighteen-month old male toddler with a history of coughing, congestion, fever, and runny nose for the previous five days. He is currently taking prescribed medication, by his pediatrician, consisting of acetaminophen to control fever as well as cough syrup to lessen his cough, congestion and runny nose. He has been on this medication for the past two days but suddenly, within the past hour, has developed an audible wheeze and cyanosis around his lips. This change in condition alarmed his mother and she called 911 to have an ambulance come to her home.

* Eye care- Dim lightds in photophobia present; clean eyelids w warm saline to remove secretions/crusts; keep child from rubbing eyes

Although it is inevitable to keep their children from all infectious diseases, parents can greatly reduce the chances of contracting them. Young children, especially infants and toddlers, have an increased chance of infections because they use their hands to explore objects and other children and then frequently wipe their noses and mouths where viruses can enter. Healthychildren.org (2014) states that most children that attend child care facilities and schools have as many as 8 to 12 colds a year along with a few episodes of nausea, diarrhea and vomiting. Symptoms of the flu, like vomiting and diarrhea, can cause severe fluid volume deficit in young children and can lead to life threatening complications. There are several available educational guides and teaching tools published for parents to use as resources in the prevention and management of diseases contracted in child care facilities especially influenza. One of the best prevention is to receive the most current flu vaccine and to update all immunizations. Schools, hospitals, medical volunteer programs and the department of health in each state offer a number of resources where parents can take their children to receive the flu vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) strongly recommends that children 6 months and older should get the flu vaccine. It is important to keep aware of when the flu

Fever in children is a typical side effect of various restorative conditions, most strikingly irresistible maladies. In spite of not being characteristically risky, it can cause uneasiness in parents and caregivers alike, and it is one of the main reasons why parents look to medical care. Evidence-based guidelines reliably express that the side effect of fever does not require treating and, therefore, the point ought to be to distinguish those children with a serious ailment and heightened comfort instead of standardizing temperature (National Institute for health and care excellence, NICE 2014). Moreover, there is confirmation that as a feature of the intense stage reaction, fever might really be beneficial in advancing recuperation from various conditions. In spite of this, there is considerable confirmation from numerous countries, that nervousness around fever and the standard utilisation of antipyretics is high (Purssell 2014).