Post by Gale Coleman on Jun 5, 2017 6:47:54 GMT -8
3.2. How do your practices reduce exposure to childhood illnesses?
Sometimes a child will become sick while at child care and need to go home, and so there should be a plan so someone can pick them up. Many child care facilities cannot care for a sick child, while waiting for parents to come pick them up, so in those facilities someone has to come immediately to get the child because they do not have the staff or the space to kept ill children comfortable. But in some facilities while waiting for parents the child can be kept comfortable and allowed to rest in a separate area of the room where they have already exposed the other children.
Where a child is ill it is best for the child not to be moved to another space to prevent the illness from being spread throughout the facility and to maintain good supervision of the child. But if the child requires minimal care for a condition that does not require them to be excluded from other children, there may be a place for them to lie down when the child needs to rest. And in some facilities special sick child care centers have been established for children with mild illnesses who cannot participate or need more care than the staff can provide in the child's usual care setting, but even with all these prevention measures, it is likely that some infections will be spread in the child care center.