EMSA Preventive Health, Safety, Nutrition, and Lead Poisoning
This 8 hour course will cover many topics for child care providers in the state of California.
Certification: EMSA (0204-DC) This card does not expire. You will receive a photo copy of the EMSA Health and Safety certification the next business day after your course (by text). The original certification will be mailed the next business day via USPS, and should take about 5-7 days to reach you.
Here is our license that allows us to teach this course throughout California.
Registration – If you need to register for this class, you can do so here:
Register for the EMSA Health and Safety course.
Zoom Meeting Rules
Please be on time for your meeting. If you arrive late, the instructor may ask you to attend another course.
You must have the video on, so we can verify that you are in attendance, but click the mute button.
You can unmute when you need to ask a question.
Please hold your questions until we have the question section. This helps the course run smoothly. You could have a pen and paper and write your question down for later.
We have have breaks on the hour and a longer break for lunch. We will be covering a lot of info, but don’t feel overwhelmed. You can always go back to this page to review.
Outline
- 9:00am - 9:15am Login for Students
- 9:15am - 9:35am Role Call
- 9:35am - 10:15am Introduction, Student Workbook Overview
- 10:15am - 10:30am Break
- 10:30am - 11:30am Lead Poisoning & Required Reading
- 11:30am - 11:45am Immunizations
- 11:45am - 12:30pm Nutrition / AB290
- 12:30pm - 12:45pm Break
- 12:45pm - 1:30pm Nutrition Reading & Discussion
- Afternoon Break & Reading
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm SIDS
- 3pm - 3:30pm Cleaning & Sanitizing (gloves, diapering, washing hands)
- 3:30p - 3:45pm Break
- 3:45pm – 4:10pm Preventive Health and Safety
- 4:10pm - 4:35pm Child Abuse/Shaken Baby Syndrome
- 4:35pm - 5pm Assorted Topics, Questions & Answers, Certification Review
Reading Sections
Lead Poisoning
5 Pages – Read this article
https://cchp.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra181/f/LPP_Curriculum_Lead-stand-alone7.14.20.pdf
Nutrition
Read through this article – 30 minutes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FRhJ4st7SGxDMsQ3BoyQvB8anDGdve8gVABKiTkZcSo/edit?usp=sharing
Discussion with Instructor
Cleaning Sanitizing, and disinfecting surfaces
https://cchp.ucsf.edu/safer-cleaning-sanitizing-and-disinfecting-posters
https://cchp.ucsf.edu/safer-cleaning-and-disinfecting-products
Discussion with instructor
Preventive Health Student Handouts
https://cchp.ucsf.edu/resources/training-curricula/supplemental-training-materials-student-handouts-6th-edition
Preventive Health – Student Workbook
https://cchp.ucsf.edu/resources/training-curricula/student-handbook-preventive-health-and-safety-child-care-setting-6th-edition