Maintaining a Healthy, Safe and Nutritious Program (10 Hrs)

Maintaining a Healthy, Safe and Nutritious Program

As an early learning professional, you must be familiar with and understand the regulations around health, safety and nutrition for children. Ensuring the children’s health and safety is always your primary responsibility as an early childhood professional. Families are relying on early childhood educators to maintain a program that is fun and educational for their children while also being safe. (10 Hours)
Enrollment expires 1 year from date of purchase.
This online course is presented in English.

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Course Agenda

1. Healthy Environments Pre-Assessment
  FREE PREVIEW
1. Policies
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Written Policies
  FREE PREVIEW
3. Illnesses
  FREE PREVIEW
4. Immunizations
5. Staff Immunizations
6. Medication Management
7. Medication in Child Care
8. Key Points to Medication Management
9. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Keeping Children Healthy
2. Daily Health Check
3. Too Ill?
4. Look, Listen, Feel, Smell
5. Excluding Children
6. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Universal and Standard Precautions
2. Applying Universal and Standard Precautions
3. Personal Protective Equipment
4. Proper Handwashing
5. Tips for Handwashing
6. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Understanding the Spread of Disease
2. Spread of Illness
3. 4 Ways to Pass Germs
4. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Cleaning
2. What's the Difference?
3. Discussion Topic
4. Using Bleach-Water
5. Routine Schedule for Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfecting
6. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Children with Special Needs
2. Weak Immune Systems
3. The Americans with Disabilities Act
4. Consider these Questions
5. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Healthy Environments Reflection
2. Healthy Environments Section Quiz
1. Indoor & Outdoor Safety Pre-Assessment
1. Safety Standards
2. Supervision
3. Safety Policies and Behavior Management
4. Regular Safety Checks
5. Safe Practices
6. Discussion Topic
7. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Injuries in Child Care
2. Causes of Injuries
3. Burns and Fires
4. Causes and Prevention of Burns
5. Choking, Strangulation and Suffocation
6. Causes and Prevention of Airway Obstruction
7. Falls
8. Modifying Equipment and Environment
9. Poisoning
10. Poisoning Prevention
11. Drowning
12. Water Emergency Response
13. Toy Related Injuries
14. Seven Toy Dangers
15. Safe or Unsafe
16. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Birth to 12 Months
2. 1 to 5 Years
3. Common Injuries Reflection
1. Emergency Procedures
2. Emergency Preparation
3. First Aid
4. Disaster Preparedness
5. Missing Child
6. Authorized Pick-Ups
7. After the Emergency
8. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Time to Play Safety
2. Healthy Risk Taking
3. Common Questions About Playgrounds
4. Playground Safety Facts
5. Maintaining Equipment and Ground Cover
6. Common Hazards
7. More Common Hazards
8. Shock-Absorbing Surfaces
9. Safe Surface Materials
10. Creating Rules for the Playground
11. Supervising the Playground
12. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Indoor & Outdoor Safety Reflection
2. Indoor & Outdoor Safety Section Quiz
1. Healthy Nutrition Pre-Assessment
1. Supporting Healthy Eating
2. Food Safety
3. Food Handling
4. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Learning About Nutrition
2. Foster Positive Attitudes and Healthy Eating Habits
3. Strategies to Prepare Children for Meal Times
4. Activities to Help Children Slow Down and Prepare for Mealtimes
5. Tips to Encourage Good Attitudes and Eating Habits
6. Beverages
7. Encouraging More Water
8. Regulations Regarding Serving Milk
9. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Sample Menus
2. Menu Reflection
3. Family Style Dining
4. Family Style Dining Tips
5. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Frequency of Meals and Snacks
2. Menu Variety
3. Eating The Rainbow
4. Vitamin C
5. Vitamin A
6. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
7. Special Dietary Concerns
8. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Nutrition Education
2. Nutrition Education for Children
3. Exploring Nutrition
4. Nutrition Activities
5. Field Trips
6. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Developing Good Eating Habits with Children
2. Discussion Topic
3. Teaching About Food Groups
4. Food Groups
5. Fats and Sugars
6. Children and Food
7. Check for Understanding Quiz
1. Set Up Your Own Weekly Menu
2. Healthy Nutrition Section Quiz
1. Course Completion
2. Feedback Form

About this course

$85.00
10 Clock Hours
All Approved States
Mixed-Age