1. Healthy Childcare Centers Childhood diseases Infant/toddlerPolicies and parent notification Mystery questions Healthy environment 10 20 30 40 50

2. Insert Common Cold: 1.Can you exclude a child from childcare settings?Can you exclude a child from childcare settings? 2.What can you teach children that can help prevent the spreading of common cold germs?What can you teach children that can help prevent the spreading of common cold germs? 3.When would you give aspirin for a common cold?When would you give aspirin for a common cold? 4.If a fever accompanies a cold, can you exclude a child from a childcare setting?If a fever accompanies a cold, can you exclude a child from a childcare setting?

3. Common Cold

4. InsertConjunctivitis, viral or bacterial (Pink Eye) 1.Can you exclude a child from childcare settings? 2.What can you teach children that can help prevent the spreading of viral or bacterial pink eye germs? 3.When would you give aspirin for pink eye? 4.Which is contagious: viral conjunctivitis, bacterial conjunctivitis, or allergic conjunctivitis?

6. Insert Fever 1.At what temperature of a fever can you exclude a child from childcare settings? 2.When would you give aspirin for fever?

7. Fever

8. IGastroenteritis (viral) nausea and diarrhea 1.When can you exclude a child from childcare settings? 2.What can you teach children that can help prevent the spreading of gastroenteritis germs? 3.When would you give aspirin for gastroenteritis?

9. Gastroenteritis, Viral

10. Influenza (flu) 1.Can you exclude a child from childcare settings? 2.When can the child be readmitted? 3.What can you do to help prevent the spread of influenza germs? 4.When would you give aspirin for influenza?

11. Influenza (Flu)

12. Diapering a child needs to occur in separate areas. What areas of the childcare setting are childcare providers prohibited to diaper children in?

14. Explain how a childcare provider must wash an infant’s hands.

16. What steps must a childcare provider follow for diaper changing?

18. What must a childcare provider do in order to prevent spreading germs while diapering a child? List at least 2.

22. Does rinsing diapers or clothes that have fecal matter on it spread germs? Why or why not?

24. What emergency and medical procedures must you notify a parent about? List 4

25. What emergency and medical situations must I notify parents about?

27. What operational policies must a childcare center have in writing that refer to health issues?

28. Operational policies

29. What health records must a childcare provider have for children in her care and how long must she keep them?

30. What records must I have for the children in my care and how long must I keep them?

31. What is a health statement that a childcare provider needs to have on each child in her care?

33. You must not admit an ill child under what conditions? This would be part of your exclusion policy. List 3

36. What should a childcare provider do to care for children who become sick while at the childcare settings?

37. What if a child becomes ill while in care?

38. What items must the first aid kit contain? List 6

40. What records must a childcare provider keep when I give medication to a child in your childcare setting? List 3 things that must be documented.

41. What records must I keep when I administer medication to a child in my care?:

42. Name 3 animals that pose a high risk for spreading salmonellosis.

44. List 3 things to do when you suspect a child is sick with a communicable disease.

48. When must children in your childcare setting wash their hands? List 3

49. When must children wash their hands?

50. What is the 4 step process Childcare Licensing requires for “sanitizing”?

51. What does Licensing mean when it refers to “sanitizing”?

52. List the Texas Childcare Licensing requirements for self-made disinfecting solutions.

53. What is a disinfecting solution?

54. What steps must a childcare take to ensure a healthy environment at your childcare setting? List 8

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59. What steps must I take to ensure a healthy environment for children at my child-care home?

60. When must childcare providers wash their hands while caring for children? List 8