Caring for Children with Chronic Health Conditions

I work at Creative Learning Daycare with children that range from the ages of two-years-old to about three and a half-years-old. I really enjoy my job very much. One of the many requirements for my job is attending workshops to receive credit hours. If I don’t have enough credit hours by a certain date I won’t be able to work there anymore. So one of the workshops I chose to attend was being held at Tennessee Tech University at Jere Whitson. It was on a Monday, April 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. The topic was “Caring for Children with Chronic Health Conditions” and we were being trained by Mrs. Paige Paul.
We first started out our training session by breaking up into groups and discussing about if we knew anyone that has a chronic health condition. Some of the conditions were asthma, cancer, and diabetes. Some of the people in the room even have these conditions and were brave enough to talk about it with the rest of the class. The most popular of the conditions that were discussed were diabetes.
A slideshow was provided along with her lecture on each condition and what it was. She also had a few videos that gave a more visual view on the conditions. We were trained on how to treat the children that had the chronic health condition. Make sure that they were to be treated like every other child. Also we were to make sure that we would have support from our fellow staff members and the child’s parents on taking care of the certain child. She told us that at first the child can be a bit overwhelming but with time we could grow with the knowledge of providing care for the child. The session lasted about two hours long and I received a certificate for taking this workshop.