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Small Group Video/Discussion: Pathogens and the Chain of Infection

View the following videos:

Pathogens: What are pathogens? – Bing video (Links to an external site.)

Pathogens:What Are Pathogens? | Health | Biology | FuseSchool – YouTube (Links to an external site.)

Infectious Disease Process: Chain of infection – Bing video (Links to an external site.)

Respond to the following question as your first post [by 3/23] in the small group discussion:

What did you discover about the infectious disease cycle that you did not know before? 

Read and respond to your group mates’ posts -what did you have in common, what was different? How does this new information change your thinking about how children get sick?

Next, as a group, identify a point in the infectious disease cycle when the cycle could be interrupted to prevent infection or control the spread of disease.

And, as a group, propose a policy and related procedure designed to prevent or control the spread of disease in an early care and education setting.

Your final post will include the point in the cycle you have identified,

the policy statement and the procedure (developed in relation to that point of the cycle)

designed to prevent or control the spread of disease. Post your final post by 3/28

Examples below:

• Policy statements typically define the responsibilities of the program and or staff, a sample policy statement: ECE staff will keep parents and families informed about communicable diseases that may have been introduced into the ECE community.
• Procedures typically describe how the program staff will carry out the policy, a sample procedure statement: Children who become ill during the day and are suspected of having a communicable disease will be separated from the others in the classroom or center and placed under the supervision of one staff person. The child’s family will be contacted to pick them up as soon as possible. All enrolled families will be informed of the potential exposure to the communicable illness, including a description of the signs and symptoms and recommended responses. The policy and procedure developed by the group will be your final post, due on or before March 28th.

The video mentioned that to prevent the spread of an infection, we must learn how it spreads through the chain of infection. It is explained that there are six links that must be present for disease to spread, namely infectious