HEALTH AND SAFETY PRACTICES

Establishing a safe, healthy environment provides the basis for which all childcare situations should meet prior to children being introduced to the environment. Some of the precautions we take care are: 

  1. Using sanitary practices in diapering and bathroom visits.
  2. Hand washing, before entering the classroom every morning and when coming back from the playground, before and after eating a meal, after wiping noses and teachers after changing a diaper and helping kids with their noses as well.
  3. Children brush their teeth after lunch
  4. Daily toy sanitation program.
  5. Cleaning floors daily.
  6. Separation of individual bedding and linens.
  7. Washing linens weekly (infants daily)
  8. Infant room is a free shoe room, no one is allowed to enter the infant room with their shoes on, shoes must be kept outside the infant room at all times.

HEALTH POLICY AND CARE OF ILL CHILDREN

For the protection of all children in our care and our families we have adopted a strict guidelines for the prevention and spread of illnesses and contagious disease. Therefore, do not bring your child if he/she has a temperature or any contagious condition. Ifyour child develops a condition during the day for which the cause is not known, we will ask you to pick up your child and get physician’s statement that the condition is not contagious before returning the child to the center. When contacted, parents or emergency caregivers should come immediately; no more than 30 minutes delay to pick up the child.

Parents will be required to remove a child immediately if a child exhibits any of the following symptoms:

  • Fever 101 *F (38.5C) 
  • Your child must be fever free for 24 hours before returning to the center.                                            
  • Two or more diarrhea in a day.                                    
  • Severe coughing.
  • Difficult or rapid breathing.
  • Conjunctivitis (pink eye).
  • Unusual spot or rashes.
  • Vomiting.
  • Yellow color or tint to eyes or skin (jaundice).
  • Difficulty in swallowing.
  • Heavy discharge from the nose or discharge that is greenish or yellowish in color.
  • Fresh cold in which child is sneezing, coughing and has a runny nose.
  • Any other symptoms that indicate the presence of a contagious disease such as chicken pox, measles, etc.

MEDICINES POLICY

Parents must give me prior written consent and written instructions before I can administer any medication to their child. This must include the child’s name, exact dosage to be given, (when) time to be given and how many times a day.

 

Parents must provide all medications, asthma inhaler, cream etc… needed by their children.

All medicines must be in their original containers with pharmacist or manufacturer's label, child's name, dosage instructions, current date and name of medication clearly written.

If a child requires medication such as an asthma inhaler on a regular basis, the parent must leave one in my setting whenever their child is in my care.

I store all medications in their original containers, inaccessible to children.

I keep written records of all medications administered to children. Each entry is signed by the person who gives the medication (TEACHERS ) and by the parents before taking their children home.

 

PLEASE NOTE:

We cannot administer any medication that your child has not taken previously. This is in case of an allergic reaction.

EMERGENCIES

Your physician’s name and phone number are kept near the phone, in your child’s individual file, and he or she will be called immediately if your child requires professional medical care. You will be notified immediately of any such emergency. However, you must help us by keeping all the phone numbers in your child’s file current.

ACCIDENTS

If your child is involved in a minor accident at the center, every effort will be made to inform you about the nature of the injury, time and place of occurrence, first aid steps taken. You will be asked to sign injury report form, which will be placed inside your child’s file.

HAND WASHING POLICY

We at SPANISH LEARNING CENTER OF DURHAM with the goal of create a habit of a correct hand washing procedure in children begin our daily routine washing our hands and require parents do the same as the first thing they do on mornings with children at the moment they arrive.

Also children must wash their hands before each meal time and after each visit to the toilet or each diaper change, each time they get in contact with any body fluid, or each time they need it.

We include a handout with the correct hand washing procedure so parents can practice it at home with children.

ACCIDENT PREVENTION

We at SPANISH LEARNING CENTER OF DURHAM are very concerned about the safety of our children, due to that we perform monthly unannounced fire drills and a playground hazard checklist to prevent any accidents. I’m CPR and FIRST AID certified.

SUSPECT CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

Abuse occurs when a parent o caregiver injures or allows another to injure a child physically or emotionally.

Abuse may also occur when a parent or caregiver puts a child at risk of serious injury or allows another to put a child at risk of serious injury.

Neglect occurs when a child does not receive proper care, supervision, or discipline, or when a child is abandoned. North Carolina law requires any person who suspects child abuse or neglect to report the case to the country department of Social Services.

In addition, any person can call the Division of Child Development at 919-662-4499 or 1-800-859-0829 and make a report of suspected child abuse or neglect in a child care operation.

Reports can be made anonymously.

A person can not be held liable for a report made in good faith.