Understand care routines when a child is ill
Watch the video above which was produced by the NHS and covers how to look after a sick child.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Laser Learning reading text: Caring for a child who is ill
- ‘Looking after a sick child' webpage on the NHS Choices website
- Find and read your setting’s policies and procedures for dealing with children who are unwell.
- Presentation
- Click on the icon to the left to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Medicines'.
- Click to launch this lesson's presentation on 'Intimate personal care'
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- This article on the Day Nurseries website is called ‘Parents behaving badly? When a child catches a cold their nursery sneezes’. The writer looks at some of the reasons children are being sent to a setting while they are ill.
- Click to read this example sickness policy from Balliol Day Nursery. Are there any things in this policy that are missing from your setting’s policies?
- Think And Challenge
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