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 Nursery
& Children's Sunday School Health Guidelines
For the safety and health of all children and volunteers, we ask both
parents and caregivers to fully respect these guidelines. If a child
is brought
to
the nursery
and the
staff
feels
the child has
any of these symptoms, the child will not be permitted to stay in
the nursery.
- FEVER- a temperature of 100 or greater within 24 hours. The child should
be fever free without the aide of Tylenol or ibuprofen.
- RUNNY NOSE- the nose needs to be continuously wiped whether it
is green or clear drainage. Lots of children have runny noses from
allergies
or teething, etc.; please use your parental discretion.
- COUGHING- continuous or consistent coughing (more than once every
5 minutes) is usually a sign of a virus or a bacterial infection. Children
are not
old enough to cover their mouths, and can easily spread germs.
- VOMITING- children who have vomited within 24 hours should not attend
(this does not include infants spitting up).
- DIARRHEA- increased frequency and a change in texture for your particular
child, noting that each child’s habits are different.
- EYE DISCHARGE- if discharge is wiped away and new discharge immediately
returns, or if there is redness of the sclera, an underlying infection
is probably present and child could be contagious.
- EAR INFECTIONS- are not contagious, but the virus that generally
causes them up can be. The virus caused by ear infections also can
bring a
very runny nose, fever and irritability. Child should be held out if
they
have any of the symptoms that correspond to the ear infection.
- ANTIBIOTICS- child is no longer contagious once they have been on
antibiotics for 24 hours, if they are without fever.
- RASH- There are many possible sources of rashes. If your child
has a rash, please inform the nursery staff of the source and whether
or
not it is contagious. If it is contagious or you do not know the cause
of the rash, please keep your child out of the nursery.
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BITING- Although biting isn’t an illness, it is a physical
hazard to other children & can require medical treatment and
cause scarring. If your child is at a stage in which s/he is inflicting
significant
injury by biting (resulting in bruising or breaking of the skin,
not simply
temporary pink marks) we ask that you either accompany your child
or keep your child out of the nursery until the stage is passed (i.e.
the child has been with other children without incident for a number
of weeks).
The intent of this is to protect other children from injury and emotional
distress. The intent is not to punish the biter, just as asking that
parents refrain from bringing sick children is for the purposes of
protecting others, not punishing the sick child.
If a child inflicts a serious bite while in the nursery program, the
parent will be immediately paged, and will be asked to accompany the
child for 6 weeks. If another serious bite occurs even with parental
supervision, or subsequent to the 6-week period, we will ask that the
child be kept out of the nursery until the parent is confident that
the child is beyond the problem and will not cause significant physical
harm
to others.
We recognize that this policy will cause significant inconvenience
for every parent of a child in a (severe) biting phase; we hope that
you
understand our concern that every child be in an environment free of
physical harm and emotional distress. If however, this is more than
an inconvenience, and it is actually a hardship, please talk with the
nursery
supervisor or the responsible staff person. (Examples that may constitute
hardship are a mother with post-partum depression, a family dealing
with grief and loss, a family in the process of separation or divorce,
severe
illness in an immediate family member, etc.)
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