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Dec 26, 2024
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ECD 107 - Health and Safety of Children
Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours
Description
This course is an introduction to promoting children’s health, safety, nutrition and physical development through informed practice. Childhood illnesses and their care, Basic Life Support (BLS), first aid training and strategies for ensuring children’s health and safety in an early childhood setting are discussed. Nutrition and exercise needs of children birth to age 9 along with movement activities that facilitate coordination and lay the foundation for later academic success are examined. A weekly field observation in early childhood programs, schools, agencies or therapeutic setting is required.
Students must have three current clearances: FBI Fingerprint Clearance, a Pennsylvania State Police Criminal History Clearance, and a Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Child Abuse History Clearance and meet the local requirements of the field placement site, including the National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) Verification Clearance.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Identify principles of child health maintenance, including nutrition, accident prevention, infection control and confidentiality.
- Apply principles of first aid to emergency situations and accidental injuries.
- Recognize common illnesses of infants and children.
- Describe the care of a child with a childhood illness in an early childhood setting.
- Identify principles of Basic Life Support (BLS).
- Identify the signs of emotional distress, child abuse and neglect.
- Recognize responsibility and procedures for reporting emotional distress, child abuse and neglect.
- Describe procedures (emergency and daily routine) to meet the needs and abilities of all children in a variety of settings.
- Identify the relationship between childhood nutrition, exercise and learning.
- Plan and demonstrate movement activities that promote physical coordination for children aged Birth to age 9.
- Identify community health agencies to be used as resources and referrals.
- Construct a NAEYC standards-based educational portfolio with appropriate artifacts.
Listed Topics
- Basic needs of infants and children
- Promoting good health in child care, principles of infant child care and health maintenance
- Dental hygiene and care, illness prevention, infection control, hygiene and toileting
- Common illnesses of children, symptoms and care
- Nutrition, food safety and menu planning
- First Aid
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Providing safe environments, indoors/outdoors, accident prevention, child- proofing, emergency response procedures
- Childhood obesity, current research
- Movement and self-regulation research
- Developmentally appropriate movement activities
- Children with special needs, health, safety and adapting movement activities
- Recognizing emotional distress, abuse/neglect, responsibility and reporting procedures
- Confidentiality
- Building links with community health resources
Reference Materials
Standard text and multimedia materials
Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals: - Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
Approved By: Dr. Quintin B. Bullock Date Approved: 03/20/2020
Last Reviewed: 9/23/2022
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