Childhood Illnesses Communicable Diseases

How exactly do children spread common communicable diseases?”. Think about a child's typical day, how do germs spread via direct, indirect, airborne, or fecal orally?

Explore Using meti.com, a whiteboard, or other whiteboard application, students will answer the question “How exactly do children spread common communicable diseases?”.

Students will be provided pictures of common childhood illnesses and match them with the symptoms associated with them.

Why is (insert procedure) hazardous? What steps would you need to clean up blood? What steps would you need to change a diaper? Wash hands? Clean? Sanitize? What materials would you need for each procedure?

Explain Using information from the student responses about how communicable diseases are spread, students will start to brainstorm procedures such as universal infection control, how and when to wash hands, cleaning, diapering, and sanitation to reduce transmission as well as the exclusion policy in childcare facilities.

Elaborate

Visually appealing informational flyer listing steps of procedure. Pictures should be from open sources.

Students will create a Canva/word document informational flyer on procedures such as universal infection control, how and when to wash hands, cleaning, diapering, and sanitation to reduce transmission.

What issues might this create for families? What would be included in a follow up plan if there is a positive diagnosis? Why is it important to build strong relationships with families , especially in situations like these?

Evaluate

Students will be given an illness to act out. Their classmates will have to identify the illness and create a parent letter that includes what illness they suspect the child is affected with, inform parent/guardian of symptoms, the exclusion policy, and highlight which procedure(s) will need to be emphasized to the staff if there is a positive diagnosis.

EXCLUSION POLICY Control of communicable illness among the children is a prime concern. Policies and guidelines related to outbreaks of communicable illness in this center have been developed with the help of the health department and local pediatricians. In order to protect the entire group of children, as well as your own child, we ask that families assist us by keeping children who are ill at home if they have experienced any of the following symptoms within the past 24 hours: