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What is a wound?
Damage to the surface of the skin or body tissue
List three environmental factors that influence good health.
What is good nutrition and dietary habits, daily physical activity, personal hygiene, regular medical and dental care, exposure to clean an safe environments at home and school, and respectful and stable relationships that provide predictability and consistency
(Any combination of the 3 are acceptable)
What should each child be provided with for napping?
What are washable cots or beds and clean sheets
List 2 kinds of abrasions commonly found in the child care classroom.
What is skinned knees, scratched arms, or rope burns
(Any combination of the 2 is acceptable)
What are 2 clues that a choking child requires emergency procedures?
What is foodborne illness?
An illness caused by eating food with harmful bacteria, toxins, parasites, or viruses
List two symptoms of head lice.
What is the constant itch of the scalp and behind the ears, small silvery eggs attached to individual hairs, lymph glands may swell
(Any combination of the 2 are acceptable)
What should childcare teachers offer to a child who is having an insulin reaction?
What is juice, sugar, or candy
Explain the proper procedure for handwashing.
What is rinsing your hands, Use liquid soap, rub your hands together for 20 seconds, rinse under water, use a disposable paper towel to dry your hands, turn off the faucet, and throw it away.
Name 4 signs of illness you should watch for daily.
What is congestion, severe coughing, sores, runny noses, vomiting, headache or stiff neck, fever, or excessive crying
(All answers are acceptable)
What is epilepsy?
A condition in which a person has periodic seizures
List the immunization(s) needed for children at 0 to 4 months
What is Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, polio vaccine, and Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine(hib)
How should you treat a first-degree burn caused by a child touching a hot object?
What is applying cold water
Which is the most serious type of burn?
What is a third-degree burn
What is the difference between sanitizing and disinfecting?
Sanitizing is for things you can see; Disinfecting is for bacteria you cannot see.
List the immunization(s) needed for children at 12 to 18 months
What is the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine(MMR), varicella(chicken pox) vaccine, Pneumococcal vaccine(PCV13)
Why should center staff take precautions when handling bodily fluids?
What is to consider all bodily fluids to be potentially infectious and contaminated
What will a preadmission medical exam help you learn about a child who is being enrolled?
What is whether the child is free from communicable diseases, if immunizations are up-to-date, if the child has any allergies, or if the child has any health problems that need special attention
What is the most common type of closed wound?
What is a bruise
List the immunization(s) needed for children at 4 to 6 years old
What is measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine(MMR), Varicella(chicken pox) vaccine,
Why should a doctor be immediately contacted if a child is bitten by an animal?
Within how long after an incident do most deaths occur after insect stings?
What is 2 hours of the incident