Self-Assessment
Unit 1.3 Supporting physical care routine for children
1. What are the basic needs for healthy growth and development in children?
2. Identify four care routines in your setting.
3. What is the importance of care routine in your setting?
4. Describe how you can support a child�s development during a care routine.
5. Explain your role during nappy changing.
6. In your setting, what is the procedure for nappy changing?
7. In your early years setting describe how you would support a child during toilet training.
8. What protective equipment do you use during nappy changing?
9. In your setting, how do you dispose of the waste or manage body fluid spillages?
Personal Hygiene
1. What is personal hygiene?
2. When should you wash hands?
3. What is the importance of washing hands?
4. What is cross-infection?
5. In your setting, how do you ensure that hygiene routine are followed in place.
6. Describe the steps for washing hands.
7. Explain how the health of babies can be affected by poor hygiene.
8. In your setting how would you support a child during care routine to promote learning and development?
Food hygiene - Babies formula feed
1. What are your setting policy and procedures for safe, hygiene preparation of formula feeds and sterilisation?
2. Outline the hygiene practice when sterilising the equipment and preparing the formula feed.
3. What is the risk to health of babies if the formula feed prepartion and sterilisation of equipment are not carried out properly according to the hygiene practise in your setting?
4. Explain the importance of food hygiene.
5. What are the good working practices for handling food in your setting?
Sleep and rest
1. Explain why sleep and rest are important for babies and young children
2. What are the sleep and needs of:
- Babies aged 6 weeks
- Infants 7 months and 15 months
- Todddlers 2 � years to 5 years
- Children 6 to 7 years
3. In the early years setting, how do early years practitioners establish routine for rest and sleep?
4. What is �sudden infant death syndrome?�
5. Explain how the risk of� sudden infant death syndrome� can be minimised.
Immunisation
1. Name the diseases which are included in the NHS programme routine immunisation. (2013)
2. What is the current immunisation schedule for babies and young children in UK?
3. Give 4 reasons why some children are not immunised.
4. Name the disease that does not have routine vaccination in UK.
5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of immunisation?