Explain why it is important to make sure all staff and children care following the principles of good hygiene?

Question

Explain why it is important to make sure all staff and children care following the principles of good hygiene in a child care setting when preparing food, toileting the children, dealing with sick children, and ensuring everyday infections such as coughs and colds are not caught by everyone.

Answer 1

One of the most effective ways we have to protect ourselves, and others, from a lot of illnesses is good hygiene. Hygiene means washing your hands especially, but also washing the rest of your body. It means taking care when you are handling food and storing food. It also means being careful not to cough or sneeze on others, cleaning things that you touch, throwing away things such as tissues that might have germs on them and using protection (such as gloves or condoms) when you might be at risk of catching some infections.

Answer 2

Good hand washing is the best way to prevent to spread of disease!!


Universal precautions are the infection control techniques that were recommended following the AIDS outbreak in the 1980s. Because universal implies perfect protection, which universal precautions do not provide, however, this term is no longer recommended.

Current recommendations call for a two-tiered system, using the terms standard and additional precautions. Standard precautions apply to all patients no matter what their infectious status is known or suspected to be. This applies to blood (wet and dry) and ALL bodily fluids except sweat, as well as non-intact skin and mucous membranes. Essentially, both standard and universal precautions are good hygiene habits, such as hand washing and the use of gloves and other barriers, correct sharps handling, and aseptic techniques.

Additional precautions are used in addition to standard precautions for patients who are known or suspected to have an infectious conditions, and vary depending on the infection control needs of that patient. Additional precautions are not needed for blood-borne infections, unless there are complicating factors.

Answer 3

Hand washing alone eliminates more illness than almost anything else.

I have a cousin that is a nurse. Her entire job for her entire career has been training Doctors, Nurses, Teachers, children and food Prep handlers to do just that. WASH YOUR HANDS FREQUENTLY.

Answer 4

Are you writing an entrance exam to be a nursing assistant? Get off the internet!

Answer 5

so you don't pass germs from one child to another and cause an epedemic especially during cold season