What your provider expects:
Open Communication: Please explain all of your Childs needs and any wishes or expectations about your child. Please, also, generously provide updates on problems and activities progress that your child is making.
Please give me information about your child like routine care needs, activities and preferences. Good communication will help all parties involved.
Honesty and You're Trust: Be honest about how you believe the suitable arrangements are going.
Agreements on terms and arrangements: You should fully understand my expectations.
Advance notice and agreement to any modifications:
I have to make a decent living too, so at least one week advance notice if you are going to stop using my services or vacation time .
Pick- up and drop - off : On time and follow through with what you say.
Up-Date agreements: If you find that the original times are not working lets, sit down and figure out new times.
Respect: Please note that I know caring for children, is a permanent job. As the provider I am a worker or just like everyone else, I am not a baby sitter.
Payment: Are expected to be payed on time.
or late fee will be charged.
Oregon rules for Sick Children: Health
414-350-0180
(1) A provider shall not admit, or retain in care, a child who:
(a) Is diagnosed as having or being a carrier of a child care-restrictable disease, as defined in Department of Human Services administrative rules, OAR 333-019-0010; or
(b) Has one of the following symptoms, or combination of symptoms, of illness:
(A) Diarrhea (more than one abnormally loose, runny, watery or bloody stool);
(B) Vomiting;
(C) Fever over 100 degrees F taken under the arm; (D) Severe cough;
(E) Unusual yellow color to skin or eyes;
(F) Skin or eye lesions or rashes that are severe, weeping, or pus-filled;
(G) Stiff neck and headache with one or more of the symptoms listed above;
(H) Difficult breathing or abnormal wheezing; or
(I) Complaints of severe pain.
(2) A child who, after being admitted, shows signs of illness, as defined in subsection (1) of this rule, shall be isolated and the parent(s) notified and asked to remove the child from the home as soon as possible.
(3) If a child has mild cold symptoms that do not impair his/her functioning, the child may remain in the home and the parent(s) notified when they pick up the child.
(b) Prescription medication is in the original container and labeled with the child's name, the name of the drug, dosage, directions for administering, date and physician's name;
(c) Non-prescription medication is in the original container, labeled with the child's name, the dosage, and directions for administering;
(d) A written record of all medications administered, listing, as a minimum, the name of the child, type of medication, the signature of the caregiver administering the medication, date, time, and dosage given, shall be kept;
No Surprises: Let us keep each other notified on everything going on so that we never have any surprises.
I plan on giving all the children in my care a warm and loving family environment, so they can grow into caring individuals.