Hand Hygiene in Early Care and Education Settings

What's In This Kit?
This training kit is designed to update teachers' knowledge about guidelines for hand hygiene in early care and education settings. It contains:

• Expected training outcomes
• Preparation instructions
• Training strategies and tips
• Implementation steps
• Follow-up activities for teachers
• Follow-up activities for administrators/directors
• A learning assessment
• A training evaluation/further needs assessment
• A resource list
• The article "2002 Update on Hand Hygiene in Child (Day) Care Settings" by Susan Aronson, MD, FAAP
• A training certificate to award to teachers for attendance and participation
• A certificate for the trainer and other presenters

Who's the Target Audience?
The target audience for this kit is beginning, intermediate, and advanced teachers working with children from birth to age 8.

Teacher Skill Level

beginning intermediate advanced

Children's Age Level

infants toddlers preschoolers school-agers birth to 8

Kit Timeline:
Preparation time for this kit is 30 minutes to 1 hour. Implementation time is estimated at 1.5 hours.

Training Outcomes:

1. Teachers will understand the American Academy of Pediatrics/American Public Health Association's standards for hand hygiene in the early care and education setting.
2. Teachers will apply suggestions for appropriate hand hygiene to their hand washing behavior in the classroom.
3. Teachers will identify when alcohol-based hand sanitizers are appropriate and inappropriate.
4. Teachers will recognize the impact of modeling good hand hygiene on children in their program.
5. Teachers will demonstrate appropriate hand hygiene in the classroom.
6. Teachers will design and implement a monitoring and evaluation system that includes regular and unannounced direct observation.

These training outcomes address the following:

• A-6a; A-6b of the Accreditation Criteria and Procedures of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC, 1998).
• Standard 1 of NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation, Initial Licensure Level (NAEYC, 2003).
• Standard 1304.22 of Head Start Performance Standards (Federal Register: Nov. 5, 1966, Volume 61, Number 215).

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