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Know how to use the Family Interview Form
to gain information for a safe and responsible babysitting
experience.
Identify
safety-related problems and solutions for safety-related problems
in the home and surrounding environment.
Use the
Babysitter’s Handbook to help identify ways to recognize, limit,
and remove safety-related problems in the home and surrounding
environment.
Describe the
babysitter’s role in guiding safe and responsible play.
Identify safe and
unsafe toys for children at different developmental stages.
Know when to use
disposable gloves while giving care and how to dispose of them
after giving care.
Know when
handwashing is needed and why the babysitter’s hands and a
child’s hands must be kept clean when babysitting.
Demonstrate how to
hold an infant.
Demonstrate how to
use a bottle to feed an infant.
Demonstrate how to
burp an infant after bottle-feeding.
Demonstrate how to
diaper an infant or toddler.
Recognize whom and
when to call during different emergency situations.
Analyze and
distinguish between life-threatening and less serious emergencies.
Know the action
steps Check-Call-Care.
Demonstrate how to
check a conscious and unconscious child.
Recognize a
breathing emergency in an infant or child.
Demonstrate proper
care for a conscious or unconscious choking infant or child.
Identify types of
bleeding and wounds.
Demonstrate the
steps to control bleeding.
Identify
appropriate work behaviors for babysitters.
Assess abilities,
limits, and job preferences as a babysitter.
Identify what to
record on the Babysitter’s Report Record to report to parents or
guardians after babysitting.
Describe why the Babysitter’s Self-Assessment Tool,
Family Interview Form and Babysitter’s Report Record are useful
tools for managing a babysitting business.
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