Module 1, Background - Healthy Child Care America

Speaker's Notes:• Medication administration depends on competence, caring, communication, and cooperation.• With ever increasing numbers of children in out-of-home settings, we need a team effort to reachthis goal, and communication is vital to this process.• The parent or guardian is usually the connection between the child care provider and the healthcare professional. A health consultant can explain and facilitate the process with parentalpermission.• Health consultants are discussed in detail later in this module.• Programs need written permission from parents to have health consultants access and discussindividual child’s health records and health issues.15