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By
Catherine M. Pruissen
The
purpose of Accident/Illness/Injury Report Forms is
to ensure an accurate tracking and appropriate follow-up
of all serious incidents which occur in child care.
Notification
of illness or injury is required by all licensing
offices. Often a Licensing Officer follows-up all
reportable incidents to ensure appropriate action
was taken to identify strategies to prevent future
occurrence. Reportable incidents include:
- Physical
abuse
- Sexual
abuse
- Emotional
abuse
- Neglect
- Unexpected
illness and/or disease outbreak
- Unexpected
death
- Fall,
other injury
- Motor
vehicle injury/accident
- Aggressive/unusual
behaviour
- Poisoning
- Medication
error
Child
care providers should report all incidents that involve
injury to both the parents and the licensing board
as well as their insurance company. Incident forms,
like the one included in Caregiver
Aids: Business Forms for Caregivers and Parents
and in our Business
Forms (available on our Exclusive
Products page) were developed to assist caregivers
in informing parents of all incidents involving their
child and to use for insurance purposes.
Parents
. . . if your caregiver is not using an incident report,
or other forms such as medication
administration, travel permission forms, please
talk to her about her method of communication with
you should your child be injured in care. This is
for your information as well as your protection. You
want to know at all times when your child is injured,
bitten by another child, or other incidents. Only
through this knowledge can you talk to your provider
about correcting the problems that arose to the injury
and take steps yourself to ensure your child is safe
and protected in child care.
(Please
visit our Business
Forms page for more valuable child care business
forms and our Exclusive
Products page for more child care resources.)
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