COURSE OVERVIEW:
When children are young, they need adults to ensure that their usual environment is safe enough that children can explore, play and learn without undue problems.
Keeping children of all ages safe and healthy is one of the most important tasks of child care providers. Whether children are in a child care centre- or home-based care, providers are responsible for ensuring safety both inside and outside their child care setting.
Health and safety are major concerns for child care providers when caring for children. They should be prepared to prevent injuries and illnesses and handle emergencies.
Children need to be kept safe and as healthy as possible but in a way that involves them steadily in their own care. Children can learn about their own bodies and health and about other children who differ from themselves. In partnership with parents, childcare educators can help children to feel cared for when they are ill as well as beginning to understand health and illness.
Your role in keeping children safe covers a range of actions, checks and your skills of observation. Children do not want to be tracked and watched all the time but attentive early childcare educators can keep an eye and ear without the children feeling oppressed.
This course explains how to organise and maintain a safe setting so that children learn about safety and risks. Then discusses how to deal with accidents safely and in a way that promotes children’s learning. Also, will help you recognise the main signs of common illnesses or health problems in children. Finally, explores the ways to take care of your own health and wellbeing as a childcare practitioner.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
By the end of this course, you will be able to understand:
- How to keep children safe?
- How to check for safety?
- Why disabled children do not benefit from over protection?
- How to support children’s learning?
- Who is responsible for children? and how to hand over responsibility?
- How to perform a risk assessment for a venue or an activity?
- How children learn?
- How to use conversations to highlight safety guidelines?
- How to share and show children’s rights to personal safety ?
- The aim of supportive safety guidelines for children
- How to help children learn about road safety?
- How to deal with accidents?
- How to cope with injuries?
- Nosebleeds and how to treat it?
- What to do in case of bumps and bruises, falls, choking and burns and scalds?
- How to place a child in the recovery position?
- The accident/ incident report in a childcare setting
- The accidents, near misses and problem areas in a childcare setting
- The learning problem solving skills
- The basic steps in effective problem solving
- The importance of talking with parents about illness
- How to decide if children are ill?
- Raised temperature and how it should be treated?
- Stomach ache and how to respond to children with stomach ache?
- What you should do in case of severe abdominal pain?
- How to deal with illness and emotional distress?
- Chicken pox symptoms and what you should do?
- German measles (rubella) symptoms
- Measles symptoms and what you should do?
- Mumps symptoms and how to deal with it?
- Hay fever symptoms and how to deal with it?
- Eczema symptoms and how to deal with it?
- Head lice symptoms and treatment
- Meningitis symptoms
- Threadworms symptoms and treatment
- How to take care of yourself?
- The importance of a positive outlook?
- How to keep healthy and watch your back from straining and wrenching?
- What you should be aware of when you’re a pregnant childcare worker?
- Why you should leave your work behind after work?
- Overcoming the sadness you feel when children move on
COURSE DURATION:
The typical duration of this course is approximately 2-3 hours to complete. Your enrolment is Valid for 12 Months. Start anytime and study at your own pace.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
You must have access to a computer or any mobile device with Adobe Acrobat Reader (free PDF Viewer) installed, to complete this course.
COURSE DELIVERY:
Purchase and download course content.
ASSESSMENT:
A simple 10-question true or false quiz with Unlimited Submission Attempts.
CERTIFICATION:
Upon course completion, you will receive a customised digital “Certificate of Completion”.