Hi all,
I'm writing a sick child policy for our church nursery and need some advice. Could somebody help me out with what your policies say regarding runny noses and coughing, specifically? Do you write in something regarding the kids' ability to blow their nose, wash hands, cover their cough? How much extra work is reasonable for the daycare provider to take on for a sick child?
Our situation, if it helps and you want to offer any advice: we have a few families consistently bringing kids that look sick (productive cough, runny nose that drips onto toys, etc), that nursery staff believe are sick and would like to send home. The families of these kids are aggressively pushing back that the children aren't sick and that the nursery staff just need to wipe their noses more or cover their mouths when they cough.
How do we write a reasonable policy here? Is something like we'll send kids home if they need their nose wiped more than once every 10/15/20 minutes to keep snot from dripping on toys/tables/etc reasonable? What about for coughs? We would like to put something in writing so that the nursery staff aren't needing to defend their judgement on whether a kid is sick so often.
I'm writing a sick child policy for our church nursery and need some advice. Could somebody help me out with what your policies say regarding runny noses and coughing, specifically? Do you write in something regarding the kids' ability to blow their nose, wash hands, cover their cough? How much extra work is reasonable for the daycare provider to take on for a sick child?
Our situation, if it helps and you want to offer any advice: we have a few families consistently bringing kids that look sick (productive cough, runny nose that drips onto toys, etc), that nursery staff believe are sick and would like to send home. The families of these kids are aggressively pushing back that the children aren't sick and that the nursery staff just need to wipe their noses more or cover their mouths when they cough.
How do we write a reasonable policy here? Is something like we'll send kids home if they need their nose wiped more than once every 10/15/20 minutes to keep snot from dripping on toys/tables/etc reasonable? What about for coughs? We would like to put something in writing so that the nursery staff aren't needing to defend their judgement on whether a kid is sick so often.
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