Health & Safety
Impetigo, ringworm, chicken pox, influenza, covid.
What are some of the contagious reportable diseases that MUST be posted when reported by a family?
Staff must supervise students.
What is at all times?
Before administering any prescription or nonprescription medicine, a center must first obtain this from a parent or legal guardian.
What is written permission?
This must be obtained from a parent for every child before they are even admitted for care.
What is documentation of known allergies?
At a minimum, centers must conduct evacuation and shelter-in-place drills at this interval.
What is quarterly?
The reason KC SM's and ASM's have access to Campus during the school year and KC SM lead during the summer.
What is access to a child's immunizations or knowledge of a medical or personal conscious decision to vaccinate?
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What is additional emergency contact information
Staff must intervene when necessary to ensure a child's:
To ensure safety, all medicine must be kept in its original container with a legible label stating these two pieces of identifying information.
What are the child's first and last name?
Allergy records must include a description of the allergy, specific triggers, symptoms, and these.
What are avoidance techniques?
he Risk Reduction Plan must identify and minimize risks related to the "physical plant," specifically mentioning these hazards.
What are electrical hazards?
Using gloves, disinfecting surfaces that come in contact with potentially infectious bodily fluids, and disposing of bodily fluid in a securely sealed plastic bag (tied plastic bag is ok).
What is how a certified center MUST handle and dispose of bodily fluids and other potentially infectious fluids?
Staff members are responsible for the ongoing activity of each child, maintaining appropriate visual or auditory awareness, and staying in close physical proximity; these actions define this fundamental safety requirement.
What is active supervision?
Documentation of medication administration must include the date, time, dosage, and these two items regarding the person who gave it.
What are the name (printed) and signature and initals?
Documentation that staff were informed of a child's current allergy information must be kept in this location.
What is on site, where food is prepared, and on field trips.
Environmental risks that must be identified include proximity to these two potentially dangerous areas.
What are busy roads and bodies of water?
KC staff must ensure hazardous items including but not limited to: sharp objects, medicines, cleaning products, poisonous plants, sunscreen, bug spray, and chemicals.
What is out of reach of children?
These four things must be considered; 1. age of the child, 2. individual differences & abilities, 3. indoor/outdoor layout of program, 4. environmental circumstances, hazards, & risks.
What is determining the appropriate level of supervision of the child?
Nonprescription products must be administered according to these, unless a health professional provides different written instructions, including sunscreen and bugspray.
What are the manufacturer's instructions?
All KC staff must sign off on all allergy information at these key times.
What is at the beginning of each season, if/when there is a change (in allergy, medication, etc.)?
A certified center is legally required to notify the commissioner within 24 hours if a child in the program experiences either of these two critical events.
What are the death of a child or an injury requiring treatment by a physician or advanced practice registered nurse?
When a child becomes sick at the center, staff must immediately notify the parent and perform these two actions regarding the child's location.
What are supervise and isolate the child?
Rough handling, shoving, hair pulling, ear pulling, shaking, slapping, kicking, biting, pinching, hitting, and spanking; humiliation, abusive language, use of mechanical restraints, including tying; physical restraints; prone restraints; or withholding or forcing of food and other basic needs.
What is a list of (but not limited) forbidden corporal punishments?
When medication is unused, the center must perform one of these two actions.
What is return it to the parent or destroy it?
Responding to an allergic reaction requires a written procedure that includes medication, dosages, and this specific contact information.
What is a medical provider?
To report a suspicion of physical or sexual abuse or neglect.
What is contact DCYF or 911?