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Lucarelli, P. (2002). Raising the bar for health and safety in child care. Pediatric Nursing, 28(3), 239-243.
The author highlighted the growing number of children in child care settings and theorized that health care professionals should make themselves widely available to both center-based care and family child care settings.
The Study
- At the time of this writing the National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child
- Care Programs was undergoing revision. However, it is considered the best source on quality in child care.
- According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, quality child care programs should include:
- Adult caregivers with training and/or experience in child development,
- Warm, nurturing, and stimulating environments,
- Small child to adult ratios, and
- Good communication between caregivers and parents.
Child care health consultants can help child care providers by:
- Conducting onsite assessments and providing technical assistance around health and safety issues,
- Providing telephone assistance,
- Assisting providers with health record keeping and policy development,
- Training staff,
- Training parents, and
- Offering referrals.
R2P Evaluation
This brief article offers child care providers several options for involving health care professionals in their work with children in the home. The author listed several resources at the end of the article for further information.
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