Children's Health and Healthcare

This assignment explores the multifaceted aspects of children's health and healthcare. It delves into a range of topics, such as childhood diseases, chronic conditions (e.g., cystic fibrosis, asthma), mental health following traumatic events (Hurricane Katrina), oral health-related quality of life, and the impact of obesity trends. The assignment utilizes research papers from reputable sources like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pediatrics journal, and the World Health Organization to provide insights into these areas.

Assignment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Collaboration...............................................................................................................................1
Collaboration establish a relationship.........................................................................................1
Regulation in NQF outline provision for collaboration..............................................................1
Regulation stipulates that care services must not communicate information of child's record. .1
In which circumstances educators can administer children........................................................1
Documentation which must be completed during medications administered to children..........1
Actions in case a children refuse to take medication..................................................................1
Procedure to be follow to ensure children's bedding is clean and safe.......................................2
Quiet area....................................................................................................................................2
Information can be include in a daily record..............................................................................2
Actions in case a child refuse to wear a jacket when playing outside........................................2
Eight examples to support children's learning to use toilet.........................................................2
Situation when educators should wash their hands.....................................................................2
Development of good hygiene practices in children...................................................................2
Importance of maintain clean and sanitising procedures for care services and education..........2
Description of each:....................................................................................................................2
Steps in case of a children in care home developed over body rash...........................................2
Medical emergency which can occur in a education or care service..........................................3
Procedure to be follow in a serious injury to a children.............................................................3
Procedure to be follow to inform parent about illness of their child..........................................3
Exclusion period and its importance...........................................................................................3
Importance of friendly communication during discussion of health issues with children..........3
Things to be consider during formulation of supervision plan...................................................3
Importance of provide appropriate supervision to children........................................................4
Information that educators need to know about children for effective supervision....................4
Regulation of education and care service regulation 2011.........................................................4
Five examples which muse be included in a maintenance schedule...........................................4
Information should be included on a monthly safety checklist of a care service........................4

Items use in education or care service should be labelled..........................................................4
Importance of proper storage of chemicals in a child care environment...................................4
Requirement of regulation 99 from care services to ensure safety of children is not realise......5
Procedure can be follow to assists supervision of every individual of education and care
services........................................................................................................................................5
Sun protection procedure should be followed in a education and care service..........................5
Requirement of check the environment and equipment..............................................................5
Fire exits clear from obstruction all the time..............................................................................5
Anaphylaxis.................................................................................................................................5
Symptoms of moderate allergic reactions...................................................................................5
Five things can be done by education and care homes to reduce risk of anaphylaxis................5
Epipen, its use and its help to an anaphylactic reaction..............................................................6
Directions for using an EpiPen...................................................................................................6
Asthma aid plan...........................................................................................................................6
Details should be include on asthma management plan..............................................................6
Regulation of education and care service 2011 that cover medication for asthma.....................6
Quality area, element and standard that focus on promoting children's safety and health.........6
Regulation concerned with training for asthma..........................................................................7
Hygiene practices followed by centre.........................................................................................7
Safety procedures implement by centre......................................................................................7
Infection control procedures employ by the centre.....................................................................7
Meals provided for children........................................................................................................8
Toys and equipment provide by centre.......................................................................................8
Actions of care service centre to ensure safety of children.........................................................8
If children become sick, that how centre looked after them.......................................................8
Actions of centre in emergency situations..................................................................................8
Supervision ratios of centre.........................................................................................................9
Safety of children ensure on excursions......................................................................................9
Centre know about anaphyaxis and management strategies for this...........................................9
Guidelines follow by centre in regard administration of medication..........................................9

INTRODUCTION
Collaboration is one of thee important concept as it bring coordination among various
activities of firm and help health care homes to deliver effective services to children. Present
report is based on child care home and various process and methods which can be used by it to
maintain helathy and safe environment at premises is all detailed under this report.
Collaboration
Collaboration is a work practice sunder which large number of individuals work together
to achieve a common purpose or set objective (Visser And et. al., 2014). Basically it is a
purposeful relationship under which individuals choose to cooperate with each other and share
mutual goals. This provide an opportunity to people to work together to achieve a common goals
and purpose.
Collaboration establish a relationship
Collaboration simply means taking the needs and requirement of other's people into
account. More willing a person about to listen need of a people, more he will be able to learn
about their positions and requirements. That's why it help in establish a relationship between
service providers and families of children because with the help of collaboration educators
identity the requirement of parents and families of children.
Regulation in NQF outline provision for collaboration
National quality framework operate under a law system include Education and care
services national law and regulation. This applies to the day care, school cares and family cares
in Australia. Regulation of NQF focus to build relationship with families of children by identify
and understand their needs and requirements. Various action are taken by NQF for advance
safety of children.
Regulation stipulates that care services must not communicate information of child's record
As per a regulation of NQF child care homes are restricted to reveal the personal
information of children in front of third person.
In which circumstances educators can administer children
Educators can administrate medication to children in case of child get injure during play
the games or due to any other reason. Further services can be offer to them if they are suffering
from a disease or in case of emergency arise or take place at workplace. In case a child a child is
suffering from a special disease like anaphylaxis that special treatment of medication.
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Documentation which must be completed during medications administered to children
At the time of medication for children, it is necessary to maintain the proper
documentation and also record all things about the children such as disease, problems etc. in the
documentation includes the birth certificate, age certificate, disease problems etc.
Actions in case a children refuse to take medication
In case if the child refuses to take the medicine then in this case
 It is necessary for parents treat child in a proper manner.
 Control on the children.
 Make some improvement in the flavour of medicine.
 Add some medicine in to the food.
 After this fool tongue.
Procedure to be follow to ensure children's bedding is clean and safe
There are several steps that can be taken so as to keep their beds clean. Some of them are
as follows:
 Change bedsheets on regular intervals so that there is no accumulation of dust.
 Use detergents to clean the beds so that there is no stains remains of the blots of previous
activities.
 Make schedule of cleaning so that any bed do not remain unclean.
 Change the wet bedsheets as soon as possible.
Quiet area
There is a requirement of quite area as sometimes the baby needs to sleep which they cannot get
disturbed while sleeping. This place can also be used for doctors and family conversations.
Information can be include in a daily record
There is need that details of each activities performed in the places needs to done so that there
must not any lagging and if any lagging in the care is noted then it can immediately be reported.
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Actions in case a child refuse to wear a jacket when playing outside
He needs to be scolded if he slightly bigger to understand and if the child is smaller then he
could be given some kind of chocolates or biscuits as a bribe so that they change their mind.
Eight examples to support children's learning to use toilet.
Eight such examples are as follows:
 Having books to read helps children to get ready for this process daily.
 Make a role play using soft toy that indicates toilet trainings.
 Reward children with some kind of eatables like chocolates and biscuits if they use
toilets.
 Use of pull up nappy pants can helps in this regard as they feel like they are growing up.
 Stay with the children in the toilet so that they get encouraged.
 Make use of song plays that will encourage them to use toilet as children gets attracted to
words that is sung.
 Make use of stories that encourages them to use toilets.
 Make an animated videos that will helps them to understand that they must use toilets.
Situation when educators should wash their hands
Situations are as follows:
 when they clean the toilets.
 When they change the dirty bedsheets.
 When they clean them.
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Development of good hygiene practices in children
It is important to develop good hygiene habits in the children and it can only be done by making
use of various promotional activities that encourages them to incorporate these hygienic habits.
Importance of maintain clean and sanitising procedures for care services and education
It is important to maintain clean and sanitation procedures since it makes them clean and let them
remain healthier. And they can grow in a proper manner.
Description of each:
 Gastroenteritis: Basically, gastroenteritis is inflammation of digestive power of an
individual which cover small intestine and stomach. Vomiting, abdominal pain and
diarrhea are the main signs and symptoms of this. Lack of energy, fever and dehydration
also occur under this. This lasts for less then two weeks and it is also known as stomach
flu.
 Bronchiolitis: This is a inflammation of the way from where air passes from the nose and
mouth, the smallest air pass of the lungs (Hockenberry and Wilson, 2014). Basically it
occur in the children of less than two years. This present with wheeze, cough and
shortness of breath which cause difficulty in feeding process of a children. This is more
common in months of winter and is caused by syntactical virus.
 Conjunctivitis: This is a inflammation of outer layer of white part of eye and makes the
eye pink. This is also known as pink eye. This cause pain, scratchiness, burning and
itchiness in the eye.
Steps in case of a children in care home developed over body rash
First it is very necessary to identify the cause of rash and after that with the consultation
of doctor proper medial treatment should be offer to child so he can recover with rashes. Further
natural remedies can b used to get a solution of the problem after that it is very necessary to wash
the rashes and let it dry by air.
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Medical emergency which can occur in a education or care service
Medical emergency which can occur at education or care home is fire, bomb, flood and
many more. In case of any emergency it is very essential and comes under the responsibility of
manager to offer effective services and do all the efforts to ensure safety of chuildren.
Procedure to be follow in a serious injury to a children
In case, management receive information about serious injury to a child than it is very
necessary that he should inform to the team manager about this (Bloom, Cohen and Freeman,
2010). After that it is very essential to find out the main cause of the injury and then inform
parents of child. Next day team leader will send full details to the police who will than
investigate about the real cause of accident.
Procedure to be follow to inform parent about illness of their child
In case of illness cause to a children than there are various methods which can be use by
management to inform his or her parents. Like in case of serious injury they can contact them on
telephone or in case of normal injury management can send them a information mail.
Exclusion period and its importance
Exclusion periods are based on that particular time that an individual with a specific
disease might be infectious for other. A person need more care and treatment during his
exclusion time so that disease could not spread to other. Exclusion period are important because
this help the care taker to develop better solutions and treatment for the patient.
Importance of friendly communication during discussion of health issues with children
Friendly communication simply means when both parties included in the process of
communication share reach and every thins with each other without any hesitation. One of the
main advantage of this is that it help the care takers to know the main cause of patient's illness
and help them to provide him better treatment. On the other hand, in case of undisclosed facts
create obstacles to offer effective treatment to patient. So it is very necessary that there must be a
open and friendly communication between children and his doctor as this will contribute in the
better health of them.
Things to be consider during formulation of supervision plan
Formulation of a supervision plan for maintain the safety and health of children is very
necessary. Main advantage of supervision plan is that it give direction to the activities of
manager and contribute lot in better health of children (Sischo and Broder, 2011). Main things
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which must be consider during the formulation of supervision plan include individuals or clients
who will use the services, supervisees, expertise and training of supervisor's, organisation policy,
structure, culture, leadership and cost related with supervision.
Importance of provide appropriate supervision to children
One of thee main advantage of provide appropriate supervision to children at various
levels sis that it contribute in maintain their good health. Further it contribute in the success of
whole process of care home.
Information that educators need to know about children for effective supervision
It comes under the responsibility of educators or service provider to offer effective
services to children but for that it is vey that that they should have proper knowledge about the
children to whom they will offer their services. Age, disease, habits, problems form which an
individual is suffering all the main information that an educator should know for effective
supervision of child.
Regulation of education and care service regulation 2011
As per the care service regulation 2011, it comes under the responsibility of all care
homes to offer safe and healthy working environment to all children.
Five examples which muse be included in a maintenance schedule
Cost, time, effectiveness, supervision and quality of all activities are the main five
elements which must bee included in a maintenance schedule.
Information should be included on a monthly safety checklist of a care service
Use of methods and process which used by workers in case of emergency or criteria to evaluate
the quality of different operation of an enterprise are the main information which must be
included in a safety checklist of a care service.
Items use in education or care service should be labelled
It is very necessary effective materials must be used by education services to offer its
services to large number of children.
Importance of proper storage of chemicals in a child care environment
Proper storage of chemicals is very necessary to maintain health and safety of children
otherwise it will increase disease and chances of its spread.
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Requirement of regulation 99 from care services to ensure safety of children is not realise
As per the regulation of 99 it is requirement for every health care safety to use effective
automation for medication.
Procedure can be follow to assists supervision of every individual of education and care services
A written plan can be made by the management and after that it must be communication
with all individuals included in the plan and after then proper implementation of all services is
necessary and evaluation of actual results with the standard results is the final outcome.
Sun protection procedure should be followed in a education and care service
Use of sun protection shields is very necessary to maintain proper health of children at
care homes.
Requirement of check the environment and equipment
Maintain healthy and safety of children is one of the main requirement to timely check
the environment and equipment.
Fire exits clear from obstruction all the time
Children must be communicate with all the steps which they should follow at the time of
fire at premises of health care. They should be guided to use stairs not the elevators.
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis is a allergic reaction which spread at a fast speed and sometimes cause
death.
Symptoms of moderate allergic reactions
 Swelling on lips, eyes and face
 Tingling mouth
 Abdominal pain
Five things can be done by education and care homes to reduce risk of anaphylaxis
Five things which can be done to reduce the risk of anaphylaxis can be understood by
following points:
 Keep an emergency kit
 Alert all the doctors
 Read all the labels of food products in case of food allergies
 Wear a medical alert
 Use caution in case of allergic insects
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Epipen, its use and its help to an anaphylactic reaction
Epipen is a medical tool which is used by doctors for inject a dose in the body of patient.
This is done by them to prevent the patient form any kind of disease.
Directions for using an EpiPen
 Remove from plastic container. Do not touch the black tip with fingers or thumb at any
time when handling the EpiPen. This is where the needle comes out.
 Form fist around EpiPen and pull off grey cap. Keep thumb and fingers away from the
black tip.
 Place black end against outer mid-thigh (with or without clothing).
 Push down hard until a click is heard or felt and hold in place for 10 seconds.
 Remove EpiPen and be careful not to touch the needle. Massage the injection site for 10
seconds.
Asthma aid plan
Asthma action plan is written document which create or prepare by doctor to help the
patient to control his asthma. Main goal of this is to reduce the emergency visits of patient health
care.
Details should be include on asthma management plan
Asthma plan should include the following things:
 List of usual asthma medicines of patient including dose.
 Instructions, what to do with patient when asthma getting worse.
 What should be done in a emergency
 Name of doctor of and health care institution
 The date.
Regulation of education and care service 2011 that cover medication for asthma
Ensure well-being, safety and health of children is one of the main objective of national
quality framework (Pinquart and Sörensen, 2011). Under this various regulations are formulated
by government to offer effective medication to children suffering from asthma.
Quality area, element and standard that focus on promoting children's safety and health
It is very necessary that effective standards must be used by care providers to ensure
safety and health of children. Area of quality must be more focused to ensure safety of children.
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Regulation concerned with training for asthma
Main cause of development of Asthma in children is still not understood. This disease is
different for everyone, every individual have different medication and symptoms for asthma. In
Australia, Asthma foundations have been supporting the care services for Asthma from more
than 10 years.
Hygiene practices followed by centre
For a child care centre it is very necessary to assist children to be responsible for their
own hygiene. Centre encourage children to wash their hands properly and it is not just wash the
hands but is now recognise that wet hands transfer germs (Bull, 2011). That's why mangers of
child care home ensure that hands of children should be well washed and should be dried as well.
Staff members timely communicate with children about the correct time to wash and dry their
hands before and after meals, after going to toilet, playing outside and before preparing food.
Safety procedures implement by centre
Being a manager of health care centre children it comes under my responsibility to ensure
that all the children are safe. Safety procedures implement by our centre can be understood by
following points:
 Child care home ensure protection of health, safety and well-being of a children.
 All employees fulfil their duties of care obligations under the law.
 Support all the rights of children to fee and be safe all the times.
 Maintain a culture in which all children feel valued.
 We encourage active participation of parents, families and guardians at the service to
ensure our best practices.
Infection control procedures employ by the centre
Spread of infection in child care centres is increasing by unhygienic behaviours and
crowding. For control infection our child care centre do immunisation of children. For example
in case of a vaccine preventable disease the infection in the body of children can be reduce with
the help of immunisation if child has appropriate age. Further we encourage immunisation and
screening of staff members and along with this hand wash and use of gloves at time of making
food for children is also comply at our workplace. Our workers wash their hands with soap and
warm water for reduce transmission of germs.
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Meals provided for children
We offer high, quality meat, fish and poultry to children. Fresh vegetables and fruit are
serve to children to build and maintain their health. Further, fresh potatoes, bread and other
cereals are also offer to children. We don't serve drinks with high amount of sugar, chocolates,
sweets and we serve bread food once in a week only. To maintain the meals healthy we store
them in right temperature and use right process to process to cook and serve its to children.
Toys and equipment provide by centre
Toys play an important role in the learning process of children in child care. It comes
under the responsibility of manager to to provide right toys to children so they can learn new
things easily. Child care home provide safe and right amount of toys to children. Managers
select the toys of high quality, avoid sharp edges of toys to ensure health of them. Further home
care centre provide other equipments like paper, pencil, eraser to support learning process of
them.
Actions of care service centre to ensure safety of children
Care is one of the important part of protection system of children. Experience of children
play greatly influence their development that's why child care home provide effective facilities to
ensure safety of children. We set and follow and effective safeguarding policy for children to
ensure their safety free from any risk or injury (Blumberg And et. al., 2013). In case of an
incident care home provide effective services to children.
If children become sick, that how centre looked after them
In case of a children become sick home care proper care to him. Home care keep the
children in a airy room because in case of too warm children feel uncomfortable. Further home
care offer plenty drink to sick child and tempt him with food and also encourage the nutritious
drink and mile to them. Along with this workers of child care give time to child for some quiet
games, company and stories and home care does not allow the asleep with a sick children
because this increase the chances of transformation of diseases.
Actions of centre in emergency situations
It comes under the responsibility of manager to ensure the safety of children in any case
of emergency. For example in case of a fire incident it is very essential to achieve safety
procedure at workplace and at the same time maintain the culture of fire safety. Care home set
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and use fire safety management plan which set out the action of all workers present in premises.
Care home have proper arrangements to implement the plan effectively in case of emergency.
Supervision ratios of centre
Whenever working with children or a group of children it become more essential that
there must be proper number of adults to provide them supervision. Sometimes it become
difficult to judge the supervision ratios (Wang And et. al., 2011). Child care home have enough
number of staff members which ensure safety of children under complex situations also these
adults are enough capable to perform various tasks as needed. Various efforts are done by child
care home to achieve best level of supervision of children under every condition. It can be said
that supervision ratio of centre is very high.
Safety of children ensure on excursions
Child care centre know the value of excursions because it allow children to increase level
of their knowledge and give them an opportunity to learn about the society in which they live.
Various efforts are done by child centre to minimise the risk related with excursions. Risk
assessment is done by firm related with excursion to ensure safety of child who is being taken to
excursion. Checklist is used by managers of care home to ensure safety of children during their
excursion. With the help of this he make sure all the children have a name badge, take
attendance of every child who left the centre and many more.
Centre know about anaphyaxis and management strategies for this
Anaphylaxis is a allergic reaction that spread very fast and sometimes cause death. Itchy
rash, tongue swelling and vomiting are the main causes of this. Home care centre have a detailed
knowledge about this disease. This is a medical emergency that why it require immediate
intervention. Basic medication is available at home care service.
Guidelines follow by centre in regard administration of medication
Medication is provide by child home care to diagnose, treat and remove illness. This is
offer to clients in different forms and in various ways. Drugs can be dangerous even if they
contribute in good health of individual. But taker them in a correct manner in a right way can
reduce the risk. Drugs can be administered in number of ways but the main and popular
administration of medication use by child home care include buccal, topical, rectal, otic, oral,
ophthalmic, nasal and many more.
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CONCLUSION
From the above information that collaboration play a big role in overall success of an
enterprise and by adopt this children care homes can offer effective services to children.
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