Health, Safety & Nutrition for The Young Child

Catalog description

This course introduces students to contemporary issues related to children’s health, safety and basic nutrition. An emphasis is placed on the promotion of children’s healthy development and wellbeing. The early childhood administrator’s role in maintaining systems for monitoring practices relating to health, safety and nutrition will be explored including the assessment of children’s health, safety management, management of injuries and acute illness, maltreatment of children, and the planning and serving of nutritious meals to infants, toddlers and young children.