CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care CHCECE002 Ensure the health and safety of children Student Name: XXXXXX Student Number: XXXXXX Assessments: 31864/01 All terms mentioned in this...

CHC50113 Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care
CHCECE002 Ensure the health and safety of children
Student Name: Sadhana Yalamanchi
Student Number: E0921149
Assessments: 31864/01
        
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CHCECE002 Ensure the health and safety of children
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Getting started
The assessment activities in this booklet have been designed to allow you to provide evidence that demonstrates your competence in the unit CHCECE002 Ensure the health and safety of children.
Your trainer will:
· answer any questions that you might have about the assessment
· assess your competence as required by the unit of competency, by making judgments about the evidence you have presented in line with the rules of evidence: validity, authenticity, currency and sufficiency
· provide feedback on the outcomes of the assessment process.
Introduction
You are required to complete two assessment tasks for CHCECE002 Ensure the health and safety of children.
In completing the final assessments, you will show evidence of your ability to:
· support each child’s health needs
· provide opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest and relaxation
· implement effective hygiene and health practices
· supervise children to ensure safety
· minimise risks
· contribute to the ongoing management of allergies
· contribute to the ongoing management of asthma.
    Assessment number
    Assessment deliverables
    31864/01
    Written assessment
    31864/02
    Project
31864/01 Written assessment
Part A Short answer questions
Student instructions
· Answer the following questions.
· Your responses may be recorded or presented in a written format. Written responses for each answer should be approximately 100 words in length. The written responses may be presented in narrative or bullet point format.
· Your responses may be recorded or presented in a written format. Written responses for each answer should be approximately 100 words in length. The written responses may be presented in narrative or bullet point format.
· To answer questions accurately, you may refer to:
· applicable legislation including the National Quality Standard and Education and Care Services National Regulations, along with the Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early Years Learning Framework
· recommendations from a recognised health authority
· the Early Childhood Australia Code of Ethics
· policies and procedures common to early childhood education and care services
· position descriptions detailing an educator’s duty of care responsibilities
· other sources such as professional readings along with the course textbook and identified key resources.
· Ensure you acknowledge and cite your sources accordingly. This is important whether you use your own words or quote the author’s words. For more information on referencing and plagiarism, refer to the ‘Academic reference guide’ in the Student Handbook.
· When referring to policies and procedures or position descriptions please submit with your assessment to support your answer.
Short answer questions
1. Discuss four ways to prevent infection in an early childhood environment.
    1. Always ask children to regularly wash hands before and after eating
2. Always ask children to wash hands regularly after using toilet
3. Teach children to cover their nose and mouth when they cough or sneeze
4. Exclude the child suffering from infectious disease to control the spread of infection
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Assessor Feedback
    You have provided a list of four ways to prevent infection in an early childhood environment.
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2. List three indirect ways infections can be spread.
    1. Droplet transmission-sneeze and cough droplets of another person when fall on healthy persons, then these healthy persons become infected
Droplet transmission — When an infected animal scratches or bites the healthy person, then the healthy person becomes infected
2. Airborne transmission-when a healthy person come in contact with the air consisting germs, then that person become unhealthy
3. Waterborne transmission-when a healthy person drink water which is contaminated with germs, then that person become unhealthy
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Assessor Feedback
    Please note:
Coughing and sneezing are direct ways infections can be spread.
Other examples of indirect ways infections can be spread are:
Contaminated objects,
Water, food, soil, insects, animals
Please read the following links of information for direct and indirect ways of spreading infections:
https://www.healthline.com/health/disease-transmission#takeaway
http://tle.westone.wa.gov.au/content/file/b80833dd-020f-461f-b813-34516ab973f0/1/Infection_in_action.zip/05_transmission_of_disease.htm
Staying Healthy https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/publications/staying-healthy-preventing-infectious-diseases-early-childhood-education-and-care-services#block-views-block-file-attachments-content-block-1
where section 3.6, on pages 60 and 61, outlines indirect ways infections can spread.
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3. Identify three occasions or situations when an educator should wash their hands.
    1. When a child gets hurt or fell down, educators must wash their hand first before cleaning their wound and giving them first aid. They must again wash hand after providing first aid.
2. When an educator comes in contact with a child suffering from an infectious disease, they must wash their hands so that child does not get any other infection from their educator.
3. When an educator is dealing with child suffering from infectious disease, they must wash their hands regularly so that another child cannot get infected or educator himself don’t get infected
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Assessor Feedback
    Sadhana, the second and third occasions in your answer are the same.
Please come up with another situation/occasion when an educator should wash their hands.
Please provide your revised answer in the yellow box below.
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    Please provide your revised answer here:
1. When a child gets hurt or fell, educators must wash their hand first before cleaning their wound and giving them first aid. They must again wash hand after providing first aid.
2. When an educator handles a child suffering from an infectious disease, they must wash their hands so that child does not get any other infection from their educator.
3. When an educator is dealing with healthy child after dealing with unhealthy child, they must wash hands to prevent the spread of infection
4. Describe two ways you can respect a child’s need for privacy during toileting, dressing and undressing times.
    1. In order to provide privacy to child while toileting, dressing and undressing, one should not constantly stare at them while they were in toilet or undressing. They must not be constantly asked to hurry up their process.
2. To respect the privacy of child, one must not touch them inappropriately while undressing. There must be minimum physical contact with the children during their privacy time.
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Assessor Feedback
    You have provided two ways you can show respect to the children during toileting, dressing and undressing time.
The following practices can also be used:
-    Being sensitive and respectful to the child’s individual needs for privacy.
-    Allowing children some privacy by observing them through viewing windows or small partitions.
-    Being present, however remaining quiet and sensitively offering assistance when needed or waiting to be asked.
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5. Complete the following sentences about the correct way to administer medication.
a. Medication given to a child in care must be authorised by
b. The medication must be clearly marked with the
c. The medication must not exceed the
d. The medication must be in its original
e. The parents must fill in a medication authorisation form for the child with the name of the medication, amount, time, time of last does, and
f. Medication should be stored well away from
    a. Medication given to a child in care must be authorised by healthcare professional or trained first-aid professional.
b. The medication must be clearly marked with the amount of dosage, timing of dosage and name of the patient
c. The medication must not exceed the expiry date
d. The medication must be in its original packaging
e. The parents must fill in a medication authorisation form for the child with the name of the medication, amount, time, time of last dose, and special instructions for administration of medication
f. Medication should be stored well away from children and direct sunlight
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Assessor Feedback
    a.You are on the right track, however, for educators the authorisation should be directly from the parent.
b.c.d. You are correct.
e. Besides the method of administration, it is critical to have the parent’s signature on the form.
f.Adding on your answer to f), medication should be stored well away from food, drink and out of reach of children.
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6. Briefly explain the key environmental factors that can impact on rest and sleep within an early childhood and education care setting.
    There are many environmental factors, which can affect rest and sleep within an early childhood and education care setting. Some of these factors include ventilation, lightning and spacious area. All the children must sleep individually. There must be separate areas for sleeping and resting, and activities. The ventilation of the room must be checked and regularly maintained so that children must not have breathing difficulty while sleeping and resting. The lightning of the room must be adequate so that children may not have any impact on their eyes while studying or playing. There should not be direct sunlight in rooms where children are resting or sleeping
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Assessor Feedback
    Good job. Ventilation and lighting are two important environmental factors that can impact on rest and sleep time.
Other important environment factors include:
-bed linen
-Temperature
-Noise
Children’s clothing and attire can also affect their rest and sleep.
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7. Describe two strategies you can implement to adequately supervise children to ensure safety.
    Following two strategies can be helpful in implementing adequate supervision of the children to ensure their safety:
1. The planning for the shifts must be done carefully so that there is continuous supervision of children while they were cared of or when they were given education
2. Children must be given supervision all the time to prevent and reduce the accidents from happening. If a class is big, at least two supervisors monitored the children regularly. There must be supervision of children during toilet and dressing while maintaining privacy of the children
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Assessor Feedback
    Please note, the number of educators allocated to each room is depended on the number of the children, not the space of the room.
other strategies may include:
-    Listening closely to children near and far.
- Scanning or regularly looking around the area to observe all children in the vicinity.
-    Observing children’s play and anticipating what may happen next.
-    Balancing activities to ensure risk is minimise and there are sufficient educators to attend to children’s needs.
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8. Describe four hazards that...