Reference no: EM133252905

CHCECE002 Ensure the health and safety of children

1. Give an example of a child in your care who has specific health needs. Include how you:

• Collaborated with the family to meet the child's needs
• Handled the child's medical information confidentially
• Ensured there was a parental authorisation form and that the medication was in date and in its original packaging
• Contributed to the proper administration and storage of the medication

2. Describe a time you had a child who was consistently unable to sleep or rest. Explain how you arranged alternative quiet activities during rest time and how you raised the issue with the family. How did you collaborate with the family for a workable solution?

3. What are two ways the sleep and rest area and practices in your service adhere to the approved standards? Explain two ways you have altered sleep and rest practices to meet a child's preferences or needs?

4. Explain how you ensure children can go to the bathroom and get dressed comfortably and in privacy while maintaining appropriate supervision?

5. Provide an example of a time when a family's clothing preferences for their child interfered with the service's safety requirements. Include how you collaborated with the family to reach a solution where the family was happy and the child was safe.

6. Describe two strategies you used to implement hygienic routines and encourage children to independently follow the routines. Include how you discussed children's health and hygiene with them and conveyed its importance.

7. How did you contribute to maintaining the cleanliness of the service? In your response, include specific tasks and how often you performed them.

8. Describe a time when you observed a child with symptoms of illness that required them to be excluded from the service for a short time. Include in your response:

• How you ensured the child was comfortable and safe and minimised the risk of spreading the illness
• The process you undertook to contact the family to collect the child from the service
• How you recorded the details of the child's illness
• How you ensured the family was aware of the service's policy for the exclusion of ill children

9. Explain how you ensured your level of supervision of children was always adequate. Discuss how you:

• Ensured the children were always in sight or hearing distance
• Adjusted levels of supervision according to needs and circumstance
• Collaborated with other educators to ensure safety and supervision of children

10. Explain how you checked the safety of the buildings, resources, and play areas at the centre. How did you record the outcomes of your checks? Describe one safety issue that you identified and outline the procedure you followed to report the issue to your supervisor.

11.What procedures did you follow to ensure children were collected by authorised people and every person entering the service was supervised?

12. Describe how you ensured the resources and toys the children used were safe. Discuss a time where you identified an issue with a specific resource or toy. What was the issue? How did you record and report the issue?

13. How did you make the indoor and outdoor play areas safe for children according to the service's policies and procedures? In your response, discuss how you:

• Ensured storage areas and practices were appropriate and safe
• Checked that hazardous products were labelled and stored correctly
• Ensured the safety of children and removed them from any new hazards

14. What strategies did you use to encourage children to always wear hats and sunscreen when playing outside? In your response, discuss the service's policy on outdoor play safety and the steps you are to take where a child has not brought their hat.

15. How can you tell if a child is having an allergic reaction? What steps would you take in the event that a child in your service was experiencing an allergic reaction?

16. Provide an example of a plan you and your colleagues put in place for a child who has severe allergies. In your response, discuss:

• How you managed the risk
• The relevant legislative requirements that you followed
• How you ensured the adequate and safe storage and administration of medicine

17. How can you tell if a child is having an asthma attack? How can you ensure there are minimal triggers? What steps would you take in the event that a child in your service was experiencing an allergic reaction?

18. What is the plan the service has in place to manage asthma attacks and ensure legislative requirements for the medication are followed?

19. Give two (2) examples of how you communicated to the children the reasons for following safety procedures. For example, when putting on your hat and telling the children to put theirs on to, you may say "We are putting on our hats to protect our skin from the sun".