Provide Care For Babies And Toddlers – Organizational Policies And Procedures

Quality Areas and Standards for Providing Care to Children

Discuss about the Provide Care for Babies and Toddlers.

 

Babies, toddlers, and the older children all are having different types of nursing categories with which they get nourished. As per the National Quality Framework, the policies and the procedures for the developmental needs of the organization are based upon few guidelines that give the basic knowledge regarding its formulation. Those are the formulated with identifying the basic needs that can provide the response to the issues of the children. Those children can be of babies, toddlers, and older children (American Diabetes Association, 2013). That is the reason the National Quality Framework has provided with the laws of National law and which gives the idea of behaving with the children. In the older children, it is mandatory to consider the self-esteem of the children. The policy and procedure say that it is mandatory to respect the privacy of the children. Therefore under the legislation, the National Quality Standard made the provision of having a particular benchmark to provide the standard quality of services in taking care of the babies and the toddlers. In this process, the National Quality Framework goes with its principles in guiding the services to achieve the standards of the developmental needs of the babies, toddlers, and the older children (Anglin, 2014).

The National Quality Standard describes the particular process which is responsible for delivering the quality amount of services for the betterment of the children. The services that are given to the babies, toddlers, and older children are assessed by the National Quality Framework which further provides the rating to the services. In this process, the regulatory body of the National Quality Standard makes the check regarding the quality areas. Out of all the quality areas of the National Quality Standard that must be applied to the physical, emotional and developmental needs of the babies, toddlers, and the older children are the relationships with children (Berry et al., 2013)n. The sources say that the children can be taken better care by the parent where they can get more opportunities for interaction. The babies and the toddlers can get special care getting close to their parents. And the older children with more and more interaction there will have the establishment of the respectful and positive relationship in between them. Further by taking care of the relationship the older children builds up a sense of security and belongingness within them. At the same time, the babies and the toddlers very lovingly explore the environment with getting engaged in their playing and learning process (Graham, Jordan, & Yeoh, 2015).

Organizational Policies and Procedures for Providing Care to Children

In this process, there must be followed the safety measures by the educators and the staff members during the preparation of food. It is always necessary to wash hands before the preparation of food. Also, the cuts and or the bandages must be covered with gloves by keeping the personal hygiene in concern. Along with that, it is not mandatory to have any jewellery than few of them during cooking (James, Nelson, & Ashwill, 2014). Similarly, the food after eating must be kept in the refrigerator if anything left over within two hours of consumption. Also, the food that has to be kept must be kept in the refrigerator in less than 5oC, as the microorganisms usually grow in between 5oC to 60oC. Also, the food must be heated to the temperature more than 60oC to keep in microbe free.

The food storage of the raw and cooled food always has different guidelines. Both the foods should be kept separately. The raw dry foods can be kept in the air tight containers on the shelves. The cooked food also to be stored in the containers in the fridge in the cold temperature by preventing spilling as it makes contamination. The raw foods are kept separately because if it is kept with the cooked food, then the juices from the raw food can get into cooked food by contaminating it. Again while preparing the bottles that must be boiled in the heat to make it bacteria-free (Janssens et al., 2013). The bottles are stood upright. The heating of the bottles depends upon the quantity of the bottle. After that, before giving it to the infant, it must be inverted finely and let to settle down, and the temperature is tested by taking few drops in hand. After that, the bottles are to be stored on the shelf in the refrigerator, not on the doors of the refrigerator.

In the Article of Convention of Rights of Child there contain 54 articles, and out of those 54 articles, the Article no.6 describes the factor ensuring bout the physical development of the child. It is because the Article no.6 deals with the life, survival, and development. According to the Article no.6, every child has the right towards its life. Therefore as per that condition the State has the responsibility to make the obligation that can help in ensuring the child’s development and survival (King, & Chiarello, 2014).

Code of Ethics for Educators for Providing Care to Children

During the development of children, for the children, the parents can also be an educator who contributes to its physical development. As the childhood is a significant time that is the reason the educator must be aware of the exact situation where the child needs which type of development. The educator must be able to recognize the strengths and the capabilities of the child after which the proper learning education should be given to the child as per his or her requirement (Lindley et al., 2013). For the physical development of the child, the educator must make the child expose to the physical environment that will help in enhancing the child’s dignity, learning, interaction, self-worth, and development. By this there the child will be able to understand their relationship with the outer world and the child can easily get adapted to the natural environment.

The policies and the procedures are made in this context is due to the skills and the knowledge that are attained by the educators during the process of working with the children. These are formulated to make sure by ensuring the development and maintenance of the effective relationships with the child that will further help in the promotional process of positive behaviour within the child. The development of the positive relationship with the child is made through the positive communication and interaction with children and by promoting positive behaviours with the children. Along with that, the educators must do the collaborative work with the children (Mathu-Muju, Friedman, & Nash, 2013). That is the reason the educator must respect the similarities and the differences of the child that can enhance their capabilities. With having these activities, the Educator can help the child in supporting them in the decision-making the process by which they can become self-dependent. The policy helps in making the development and implementation by ensuring the parents, supervisor and the staff members with all the requirements of the child. The policy ensures the children to adequately supervise. Along with that, the policy deals with the specific group that provides the children best opportunities. The policy ensures the encouragement of the children for expressing the opinions of the children, and by this, the children maintain the dignity and their rights which provide positive guidance’s.

EYLF or the Early Years Learning Framework is the additional tutorial that helps the educators in providing early care, education and learning to the child. The process of EYLF in children is carried through the framework of belonging, being and becoming. In this, the EYLF can be applied where the children have the strong sense of identity along with those which can get connected to the world (Marshall, Gidman, & Callery, 2013). Apart from that the children those have a strong sense of well-being can have the EYLF. Again the children those are confident learners and effective communicators can get EYLF.

MTOP is the process that helps the educators of school care to have the development of self-paced professionals in the school (Lindley et al., 2013). It helps the educators of the school to make the examination of the current reflective practices which can be said to be implemented in the National Quality Framework. Due to this there develop the collaborative relationships in between the schools with the school age care services.

Access the UN Convention on the rights of the child and list the “articles” that apply to this unit of competency.

As per the UN convention, there are many Articles that directly state the development of the positive relationship with of the child and match the particular competency. Those articles include the Article no. 2, 3, 5, 12, 13, 14, 27, 29 and 31 (Marshall, Gidman, & Callery, 2013). These entire articles in some way or other contribute towards the enhancement of the positive and respectful relationship with the child. In this process, the educator has its major contribution which modulates the child behaviour with their concerned actions.

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James, S. R., Nelson, K., & Ashwill, J. (2014). Nursing care of children: Principles and practice. Elsevier Health Sciences.

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King, G., & Chiarello, L. (2014). Family-Centered Care for Children With Cerebral Palsy Conceptual and Practical Considerations to Advance Care and Practice. Journal of child neurology, 0883073814533009.

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