What is Healthy? Prezi Presentation

Alright.

So let's get started with module two, which would be week two in your camera shells.

Um And let's start with what is healthy.

We need to be able to define what healthy really looks like in a child care setting,

in order for us to get a full understanding of the actual course itself.

So we're gonna start there and work our way

through the course this way.

So the very first thing we need to do is define what healthy is,

well, what we would assume health to be is really all physical, right?

So Children that are healthy usually are physically healthy,

but it's so much more than that.

When we think about healthy, we have to think about about the physical

in combination with the emotional side of a child, the social side side of a child,

the spiritual side, the physiological side and even the cultural well being

all influence what we would consider to be

healthy,

right?

So we are not just looking at the physical side of a child,

but we're actually looking at all parts of the child,

the whole child and that's gonna be what we define as healthy,

other than that. That's what we see healthy as being.

So there is a lovely training that I love all

students to take and it's called the Watch Me training.

So I would suggest stopping now in this

process um and taking a peek at the Watch

me training and actually working your way through it.

This is also something that you can put in your binders for your final project.

So I would suggest taking some time

and completing the work, me,

the watch me training and then coming back to the presentation.

All right, by now, you've already done the training. We've defined what healthy is.

We know that it's more than just physical.

We know that it's more than just the traits or the genes of a child.

It's more than just heredity.

It's the whole child that means it's physical, it's psychological,

it's physiological, it's gonna be emotional,

it's going to be the cultural aspects of that child.

So we know all of that

and now I'm gonna tell you to stop, take a break, breathe, walk away, come back,

really take in your environment.

Look around, ask yourself, are you considered to be healthy?

Um And what makes you healthy?

What parts of the, the combination that we talked about or what makes you healthy?

Um And then what parts may not make you so healthy.

And that also helps you start to actualize what's going on with the chapters. OK.

So when we think about health health is influenced by a couple of things,

it's influenced by stress and fear.

Um And it's also influenced by self esteem.

So when we really think about health, we're looking at

the sleep side,

the violence um and poverty that will be

that stress and fear that we're talking about.

If a if a child can't sleep at night, it impacts their health.

If a child, if a child is going to be in fear because of violence that's around them,

that is also going to impact their health.

And when we think about poverty,

we're thinking about a low income child that might be living

in um homelessness as well as low income housing.

And when we think about that, it also goes back to violence and

to some extent sleep.

So we would think that these things don't impact Children but they very much do,

right? Children can feel stress just like an adult can

and they can also be living in fear just like an adult, right?

Even if that adult is doing everything in their power to make

sure that the child doesn't technically see what's going on around them.

They're trying to create the environment at home where it's more kid friendly.

It's got um

space where the child can actually be a child.

It doesn't erase the fact that the child still notices what's going on around them.

So they can still feel stress and they can also feel fear

and they can also pick these things up from their parents.

The other piece is self esteem.

When we think about self esteem,

we're thinking we're thinking about dental hygiene.

I also like to throw in not just dental but also physical hygiene,

that body hygiene that we talk about so much.

And then poverty, poverty,

you would think that it just only stays in the stress and fear side of the house,

but it also impacts the child's self esteem.

Think about the trickle down effect, right?

If a child is living in poverty, then the odds are they're not wearing clean clothes,

which goes to that physical hygiene,

they're not able to get their teeth done with goes to the dental hygiene,

they're not gonna be able to get their hair done.

Even if the parent is trying to do it at home,

there might be some things um that might be lacking

that would cause their hair not to be completely done

uh in the black environment or you know, African American culture,

we use a lot of hair grease and hair oils.

If you don't have access to that, our hair will break,

it starts to break off when that happens, it impacts the child's self esteem.

So when we think about self esteem,

we have to think beyond what we would attribute self esteem to

be with and start to really look at the bigger picture.

What are some of the things that impacts your self esteem

if they, if it impacts your self esteem, the odds are,

it also will impact a little one's self esteem.

All right.

So when we think about the foundations of health, we need to think about a few things,

right?

Um We need to think about three

primary environmental factors that influence that foundation.

One, a stable and responsive relationship.

Parents have to form something that's stable where the

child knows that they're going to be there.

But this is also on the teacher's side as well,

the educator or the child care provider or the guardian of that child,

that stability has to be there.

Um When we think about Maslow, this would probably be the lowest of that tier, right?

Being able to create that environment where that child knows

that you are going to respond to their needs.

Um that they, that you're going to be a stable responsive person.

Uh So let's think about the other

environmental influence is gonna be that safe physical

environment,

creating that safe space where that child can grow and thrive as a child.

Um making sure that they are there are

protections in place, right?

But think about the physical side,

how you actually design that space and then the last one is good nutrition,

which we're going to talk about.

But it's also part of one of the projects that I have you working on

just because a child is in a stable environment

in a responsive environment, doesn't mean that their nutrition is going to be

good, right? It doesn't mean that they're not being

um deprived of vegetables and fruits that they need to grow and thrive physically,

right?

So we wanna make sure that good nutrition is always at the front of our mind.

But we also need to remember that when you live in low income neighborhoods, again,

you will see this coming up in one of your projects.

But when we live in low income neighborhoods,

the grocery stores also are a reflection of that neighborhood.

So

you may go into a,

a low income neighborhood and notice that there's a lot of canned goods,

a lot of processed goods.

Whereas if you go into an upper income neighborhood,

you might start to see that there's more fresh fruits and vegetables.

Um very few options for candy and sugar filled items, right?

So as I say, you will be doing something similar to this type of project coming up.

But just keep in mind that in order for a child to really grow and thrive,

there are three things they have to have in place.

One is that stable responsive relationship with you as an educator,

a childcare provider, as well as their parents,

a safe and physical environment that set up that you create for that child

and then good nutrition.

All right.

So we think about some of the social determinants of health.

We need to remember that as a crucial part of overall, of the child's overall health.

You got to understand that, that stability, which what we just talked about

um that's safe and physical environment, that good nutrition,

all of those things have to be in place.

This goes back to me saying I'm gonna say it again,

these three things have to be in place for that child to grow and thrive

to what their potential is, right?

So just keeping that in mind

and then I'm gonna skip past this one because it's the same thing

I just told you that there are gonna

be some inequalities that you're gonna talk about.

But you're also going to see as you do some of your work going forward.

All right. So when we think about

health equality,

one of the things I want you to keep in mind and I want you to ask yourself

as you go through the course is what are

some of those social inequalities that you see?

And why is this important to understand? Right.

So, have you ever noticed that you have two Children?

They may be living in the same household with the same family,

they even are born with the same privileges, right?

Um

But for some odd reason,

they come out

with different outcomes. Why?

That becomes that question? Why? But then you also have Children who are

having completely different memories of their childhood

and they're also brought up in the exact same environment.

How can these Children have totally different memories

but be brought up in the same environment, something that you have to think about

because this is something that

it's going to face you as a teacher.

So group work, take some time to get yourself in your groups

and then we're gonna keep going. Ok?

So the next section of your of this

particular module talks about daily health checks.

This is one way as teachers, you are able to assess

the child's health when they walk in the classroom,

right? But there are some things that you need to make sure are very clear

so that you're not looking a little suspicious to a parent

and a parent is not understanding why things are happening,

right?

One, you need to make your parents aware of what you're doing and why you're doing it.

This gives you the opportunity to just say we told you we

do daily health checks every time a child walks in a room.

And these are the things that we're looking for

to make sure that the child is health healthy.

The other piece is to make sure that you greet each child individually.

This gives you an opportunity to use all of your senses

while you're greeting this child to check for signs of illness.

You're going to realize that these daily health checks not only cover

you as a teacher from a legal perspective because you are,

you are considered to be a mandated reporter.

You have to report if you suspect that a child is going through child abuse, right?

One way to,

to make sure that this child is not being abused at home or

to confirm your suspicions of child abuse is through the daily health check,

right?

It's a very quick scan of the child.

Um making sure you're looking for scars and marks on the child,

but it's also a opportunity for you to to not

only visually look at the child to use your senses.

And actually, if the child smells,

that's something that you need to maybe not have reported as child abuse,

but maybe offer that parent some resources on maybe they're living in their car,

right?

So you may need to reach out to that

parent and say here's some resources on homelessness,

here's some shelters that we know of.

So you're gonna use your senses and you're also

gonna use common sense because I'm a firm believer.

And if I cannot remove a child from a home, I'm not going to do that.

But if a child is being abused as a mandated reporter, I have to report this

right? But if a child comes to school and they have a

smell to them,

if they seem to be dirty in a appearance,

that could not necessarily mean that the child is being abused,

it could be that the family is going through

hard times and maybe living out of their car.

So instead of reporting this as an abuse case,

I might just offer the parent resources and give them time to get up on their feet.

Um

But again, because I'm experienced with this type of life, then

I would probably veer to the side of let me offer you resources.

But because you're new,

the best thing to do is to report it to your,

your immediate supervisor and then let them be the ones who report it

in the direction they see is the best fit for that child,

right?

And if you're noticing that that immediate supervisor is not doing that,

then you need to fall back on mandated reporting.

Mandated reporting will yes, flag that parent,

but it also will give that parent an opportunity to explain

to someone else other than you what's happening at home.

And then

maybe that mandated reporter will have the

opportunity to start to look for resources.

And there is a lovely video that you should be watching.

This video will walk you through what a daily health check looks like.

But again,

it really is using your five senses and taking a I like to call it a quick scan.

But remember I I've been working in education for a really long time.

So my scan is quick because I know exactly what I'm looking for.

If you're new to this, then the scan will not be quick, right?

You're going to have to really

take some time and look at each and in each individual child for

specific things and this video will help walk you through that process.

All right.

So when we think about communicable or communicable disease, communicable,

not communicable but communicable.

Remember that word? OK. We're thinking about a disease that's very contagious.

Again,

the daily health check also gives you the opportunity to

start to look for things that are like illnesses,

chickenpox.

Um being one of those things.

If a child has one spot and then it looks like it's starting to spread,

then you know that this child may be contagious nine times out of 10,

they are and you may not want to put them around

other Children and you need to send that child home.

So when we think about communicable diseases,

we're thinking about diseases and illnesses that are very contagious.

And which means that as a professional,

your responsibility is to protect all the Children in that room, right?

So that means that you may need to report this.

Let me rephrase,

you will need to report this and you will probably more

than likely need to have that parent come pick up that child

and

you're probably more than likely going to also have to inform the Children

of that room, their parents that, hey, this is what's happening in my,

in the classroom right now.

Uh we had one child that it was a

contagious child and your child might have been exposed.

I would say follow CDC guidelines.

Follow Colorado's rules and regulations to the team.

And that way, you know, you're in the right.

All right.

So some of the ways that you can

prevent any communicable disease from spreading in your classroom

again, what did I just tell you from the beginning?

Make sure you're conducting those daily health checks.

Never, ever not conduct a daily health check. That should be every day.

Hence the name daily health checks.

Ok?

Establish health policies,

especially if you are thinking about becoming a director of a child care center

um

or an immediate supervisor,

establish those health policies um with the

exclusion criteria and the immunization requirements,

you need to make sure that those policies are clear

to all of your parents, not just your your staff, they also should know it,

but your parents also need to know

what the policy is so that they know

when to leave their Children at home,

right?

Stay at home. If you are ill,

you don't need to come to work, you need to stay at home,

right?

And this is important because when COVID came,

that was one of the bigger pieces of COVID and

we need to remember that COVID is not gone anywhere.

It is still here. Yes, we have vaccines now and we have medication

but COVID is still very much dominating,

it is still very much as fatal as it was when it first came out.

Um And we need to still practice the same

policies and procedures for Children that may have COVID or show symptoms of COVID.

Those things still need to stay in place, right.

Use universal safety protocols.

Make sure that the protocol is the same across the board.

If you're sending one child home for 100 and four fever,

all Children that come with 100 and four fever, fever needs to be sent home.

Right?

I would strongly suggest at 100 and four

you're sending that child straight to a hospital,

right? But anything past 98.4 or 98.6 should be considered a fever.

But again, that is also

protocol that I know was in place prior to COVID.

So you really do need to go back to the CDC guidelines and go back to the Colorado

rules and regulations and make sure that that is

the same protocol and make sure that it's universal,

which means that what goes for the kids also goes for your staff and for yourself,

practice good hand washing that should never change.

It should be not only a practice,

but you have to train and teach your little ones how to do this as well.

Sanitize your diapering areas, your toilet areas and your play areas.

I personally believe in sanitizing three times a day.

Um prior to the kids getting there,

after kids move from one area to the next and that would be in the play area area alone.

But the diapering and the toilet,

toilet area should also be sanitized after every use.

And then at the end of the day. So

as just me, I'm a little O CD with my, my sanitizing technique, but I do believe that,

you know, the more you can sanitize the better off you will be

and then learn how to recognize the symptoms of

communicable illnesses. You need to learn what those symptoms look like

and there's a video, take a look at that video.

It's gonna walk you through a few more steps.

All right.

So how do we know they're spreading?

Well, one thing is airborne, right?

So airborne transmission is definitely one way

that a communicable disease can spread.

Um This can be a cough which is a simple

a sneeze which you've seen, you know what sneezing looks like and even talking,

right?

Mainly because of the particles that come out of the nose,

the mouth and hit another child.

You may not see it, you may not even feel it, but it does happen.

Ok.

We've seen Children cough or sneeze or talk in their hand and then they touch a door

again. This is where hand washing comes into play,

right?

This is where also covering your nose comes into play,

using the crevice of your arm comes into play.

But we wanna make sure that we are

understanding that these,

this is a way that a disease or an illness can spread fecal matter.

Um

poor hand washing is a, a prim, a primary cause of this one, right?

So going to the bathroom and then not washing your hand or going to

the bathroom and not using the 22nd rule or the Happy Birthday Song rule

and then direct contact with bodily fluids, rashes or direct sources.

Um This is basically,

I would always say I've seen this one more with the rash side of the house.

Uh kids will touch the rash and then touch another kid.

Um

I've also seen this one with ring worms, they'll touch their head

and where that little

bumpy spot would be in their head. They will touch another kid

and that will, will spread,

it'll, it'll spread fast. So we want to be really mindful of that

and then indirect contact from infected items like the toys,

which is why I love to sanitize so much because

to me, indirect is a lot faster than the other three, right?

Because you don't know exactly what you're touching.

So toys eating utensils, some types of foods actually have, um,

germs on them. And I also like to add doorknobs, ok, door knobs.

And if you are a teacher in a classroom and you have a,

I used to say a chalkboard or a whiteboard, um, your keyboard to your,

your computer or your laptop.

If

someone was sick and then they touched those items,

it could also spread from just touching you coming behind them and touching them.

So be kind of mindful of things that you touch,

but also be mindful of your kids and the things that they touch.

So sanitize and wash your hands.

All right.

Some of these

illnesses that you might encounter,

I mentioned one already and that was the chickenpox.

You will see the spots. Ok. Croup rashes. We've seen ring worms.

If you haven't seen ring worms, they're definitely usually in the scalp,

not the prettiest looking things in the world.

Usually they cause the child to lose hair in a circle.

So kind of be mindful of those types of things. Shingles.

I will tell you I had shingles about two years ago.

It was right during the time of the pandemic when we

were right in the heart of COVID and very painful,

very, very painful.

So the child will definitely be in pain or you will be in pain.

Um You will also see the spots in certain part on certain areas of the body.

For me, it was on the side.

So if you're doing that daily health check,

the odds are you probably wouldn't see it with

clothes on because that's exactly where mines was.

I had it in multiple spots actually.

And,

and my doctor said I was probably the first he'd

ever seen where it popped up in multiple spots.

But you will know it because it is

the worst pain

that you can probably experience.

I wouldn't wish it upon the enemy and it also comes with a fever,

ok. It also comes with a fever and usually when you have a fever, I would,

I'm more than likely to venture out and say usually when you have a fever,

you probably are contagious at that time.

Ok.

Strep throat, kids do get a lot of strep throat, the common cold, which is just that

stuffy nose, runny nose, um,

cough

type thing,

um, hand mouth, hand, foot and mouth disease influenza,

which is also known as the flu,

the whooping cough, which is kind of old,

but it's not that old because we're starting to see a lot of these old viruses and

germs pop back up

pinworms and the one that's most common that I've seen a lot of,

but I've also heard a lot of parents say, oh, it's just sinuses.

It's pink eye.

Ok?

If they start to get the cruddy stuff around their eyes,

if their eyes start to water or run and they

have that pinkness in there and they have a fever,

it's more than likely pink eye.

I am good at telling people do not let parents tell you it is just sinuses.

If they come with a fever, you need to be calling the parent.

All right.

So there is a lovely link that I'd like you to look

at and it is the health and safety in a childcare setting.

Um,

I also gave you some page numbers that will help you go through this particular link.

And as you can see the daily health check is there for you.

Again, this is not a big, big process. It really is a scan

but that is usually for someone that is more veteran and more seasoned.

If this is not you, I would probably say go slow,

look slowly starting off and then eventually

that daily health check will get better.

You also see some health and safety policies that are in place.

Um exclusions for illness, Children with special needs.

This is where you definitely need to be

more careful and more mindful and more diligent about

your health and safety policies and then information on

specific diseases that you might come across with.

That being said that is this module's presentation, not a very long module,

but you have enough readings and in the enough videos to take you through.

So hopefully you found this to be helpful.

Um And then I will see you in the next module.

So go ahead, get yourself moving into the next module.

You'll find that there's an assignment more than likely a discussion for you.

And then once you finish that, move on into your next module.

Um but this will be this particular module's entire presentation.

So you can always come back to it, watch it as you need it and um thanks,

talk to you all later.

Bye.

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