Safe And Healthy Child Care

This could be after changing a nappy, going to the toilet or playing outside. This risk can be minimised by making sure everyone washes their hands before eating and before, during and after preparing meals. Also, ensure that all equipment is clean and in good condition as this can also cause contamination if dealing with raw and cooked foods.

Hand hygiene practices are important thing to infection prevention and control practice. As health provider especially ED staff or front liner, to follow hand washing protocols is necessary in any situation. According Practice Standard (2009) four major elements to preventing practice; hand washing, protective barriers, care of equipment and health practice of nurse. Cite from Health Promotion Agency for Northern Ireland, scientists has found around 45% of infections can be prevented by washing hands regularly. MOH (2010) increasing in hand-washing compliance by

Ensuring that children grow up in circumstances consistent with the provision of safe and effective care and

It is important to ensure children and young people are protected from harm within the setting, as the parents are leaving their children in your care with the expectation that they can trust you and your colleagues to keep their children from harm. It is difficult for parents to leave their children in an education or care setting and then go to work; they need to be confident that their children will be in safe supportive hands with people that will help them develop.

They will need support from family/carers to help dress/wash, this will effect their confidence and self-esteem and dignity, its vitally important you as carers understand the emotional impact it will have on them as well as the emotional one.

Risk assessments should be carried out regularly to make sure that there are no safe guard threats towards the children in the setting. Childcare settings need risk assessing for example is there entrances and exits to the building that an unauthorised person could use? Could a child leave the setting without anyone noticing? Could a child get seriously hurt due to a broken piece of equipment?

It is very important to let children asses’ danger for themselves in a secure environment. It is not good for them to be cooped up and have somebody tell them that one thing is bad and will hurt them and another will keep them safe they need to identify these things for themselves to enable them to live a positive life as an adult and to gain confidence in themselves and their own abilities. At the same time the children need to be given this chance in a safe and secure place whereby I as the carer know they will not come into any danger.

Children love to play and explore. For example while in a park a child will want to climb a ladder to go on a slide. Natural reaction may be to hold or even pick up a child and put them up. Children learn best when trying and experiencing things themselves. There is a risk of a child slipping and falling of the steps but a child also has a right to experience facilities to aid their development. Children need to learn how to predict and avoid dangerous situations.Another potential dilemma may be confidentiality. I must ensure that all personal information is kept confidential and is not shared with anyone else unless permission form is signed. But if there is a case of concern that a child’s welfare may be at risk social services have to be informed.There is also a possibility of conflict with parent’s wishes due to their culture and religion.

• Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water for at least 20 seconds after changing your sanitary pads or using the toilet, and before holding or feeding your baby.

You, your child, and any visitors should wash hands often, especially before meals, after being outside, and after using the toilet.

Based on the article Caring For our Young, I think the best approach for childcare is how the French have it set up. The French view childcare as an early education system that is used as a preparation for schooling in the future. Although the activities in these childcare centers are said to be fun, they treat the children as pupils in hopes to better them for school. That being said, I don’t think that a more nurturing, playful approach is necessarily a bad approach, but I don’t see it as beneficial to the children as much as when they use the childcare as a preparation for schooling in the future. I think the best thing to do would be a balance between the two. Since these are all very young children, they would not have the focus and mindset

Hands must be washed after using the toilet or entering the toilet area. Use the posted guidelines on how to properly wash your hands, located above every wash station.

Effective Hand Hygiene- In early childcare settings hands play an important role in spreading infection. This can be prevented by practicing the right way to hand wash with soap and water or by using alcohol based hand rub. Creating awareness among the children about effective hand hygiene and ensure children practice hand hygiene by washing hands with soap and running water and use paper towel to dry their hands all the time.

But if washing your cloth diapers seems to be a little tricky, then flats and prefolds are your best bet. You can easily wash them in your bathroom tub or sink.

Literature Review
The importance of establishing a proper behavioral pattern for healthcare workers concerning hand hygiene is underscored by some of the research encountered for the literature review. One such study of interest would seek to determine the conditions which have tended to produce habits considered to be positive and sanitary hand hygiene practices. The study by Sax et al (2007) was conducted for the purpose of examining the factors which induce preferred hand-washing techniques and frequency in healthcare workers. Projecting itself as a cross-sectional study design in which a questionnaire serves as the key data gathering instrument, the article by Sax gathers a broad sampling of perspectives on the issue of hand hygiene and the parameters which tend to be effective in encouraging it. The methodology of the study was the distribution of the survey questionnaire to a randomly selected population of a university-based teaching hospital. The survey would be self-administered and would be returned anonymously, with biographical details limited to those describing the individual respondent 's position within the hospital. The sample for the execution of this study would be drawn from the hospital 's personnel, with 1042 questionnaires being returned completed. The study reports this as a 35% return rate. The breakdown within this sample population amounted to 271 physicians, 629 nurses, and 141 nursing assistants. The findings would suggest certain majority