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Health, Safety, and Nutrition Exam Questions and Answers, Exams of Public Health

Computer Systems Institute (CSI)Public Health

A series of questions and answers related to health, safety, and nutrition in a childcare setting. It covers topics such as healthy environments, daily health checks, common illnesses, and important definitions related to child health. Useful for individuals working or studying in early childhood education or related fields.

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DCF HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION
EXAM 2025 EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS| ABSOLUTE
SUCCESS GUARANTEED.
1. What are the qualities of a Healthy Environment? - correct answer -
Clean work and play area, proper hygiene practices, implementation and
routine practice of a writen health policy.
2. Why establish and follow a written health policy? - correct answer - It is
an effective way of maintaining a safe and healthy child care program.
3. How do you know if your program has a written policy? - correct answer
- Ask your VPK program director and it usually posted in various areas
like sink, kitchen, table
4. Why should policies be written? - correct answer - 1. To ensure parents
and child care professionals are aware of procedures 2 to make sure
everyone follows same rules.
5. How is each sense used to observe a child (touch)? - correct answer -
Check for too much warmth or coldness.
6. How is each sense used to observe a child (smell)? - correct answer -
Check for a bad smell or a change of smell.
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DCF HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NUTRITION

EXAM 2025 EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND

VERIFIED SOLUTIONS| ABSOLUTE

SUCCESS GUARANTEED.

  1. What are the qualities of a Healthy Environment? - correct answer - Clean work and play area, proper hygiene practices, implementation and routine practice of a writen health policy.
  2. Why establish and follow a written health policy? - correct answer - It is an effective way of maintaining a safe and healthy child care program.
  3. How do you know if your program has a written policy? - correct answer
    • Ask your VPK program director and it usually posted in various areas like sink, kitchen, table
  4. Why should policies be written? - correct answer - 1. To ensure parents and child care professionals are aware of procedures 2 to make sure everyone follows same rules.
  5. How is each sense used to observe a child (touch)? - correct answer - Check for too much warmth or coldness.
  6. How is each sense used to observe a child (smell)? - correct answer - Check for a bad smell or a change of smell.
  1. How is each sense used to observe a child (taste)? - correct answer - Ask child if they taste something funny
  2. How is each sense used to observe a child (sound)? - correct answer - Check for breathing is it easy or ragged, etc.
  3. How is each sense used to observe a child (sight)? - correct answer - First observation of seeing a child's appearance and check all areas from head to toe.
  4. The three A's of a healthy child are - correct answer - Appetite, Appearance and Activity
  5. Appetite signs of a healthy child are - correct answer - Can eat an appropriate amount of food at meal times. Will Consume a variety of foods. Is interested in eating? Appears content after meals/snacks.
  6. Appearance signs of healthy child are - correct answer - Has clear, bright eyes, clear skin, age appriopiate muscles, gains steadily in height/body weight
  7. Activity signs of a healthy child are - correct answer - Has plenty of energy (not hyperactive), is alert, sleeps soundly and has few aches and pains.
  8. Emotional health of a healthy child are - correct answer - a child who usually reflects happy, cheerful feelings

raches, swelling or bruises, sores, discharge from nose, ears, eyes, red look to eyes, irritated sensitive to light.

  1. Signs to observe in a daily health check in general: - correct answer - bowel movements (change in color, oder, frequency), pain (screaming, crying, head-rolling), skin marks (rashes, bruises, cuts)
  2. Appetite - correct answer - desire to eat
  3. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrom (AIDS) - correct answer - A virus infection that renders the body incapable of fighting off the most common diseases and is usually fatal. This is considered to be the end stage of a HIV diagnosis.
  4. Clean - correct answer - To remove dirt, debris and germs by scrubbing and washing with soap (or detergent) and water. The process does not necessary kill germs, but lowers the risk of spreading infection.
  5. Communiable Disease - correct answer - Disease that can be spread from one person to another.
  6. Dehydration - correct answer - Excessive water loss from the body or from an organ or bodily part.
  7. Disease - correct answer - an illness
  8. Disinfectant - correct answer - To kill germs on surfaces or objects by using chemicals to lower the risk of spreading infection
  1. DTP - correct answer - A vaccine for three diseases: diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw) and pertussis (whooping cough)
  2. Evacuation Plan - correct answer - Procedures for getting children and staff out of the building; applied during the fire drills and any other emergency situation.
  3. Health - correct answer - The total well being of the physical body (including the emotions, the mind and the spirit) and the absence of disease or other abnormal condition.
  4. Health Assessment - correct answer - An estimate of the state of health of a child based upon observation of his or her health history and measurements of phyiscal growth.
  5. Health History - correct answer - A record of major health (and illness) events in a child's life including immunization information.
  6. Hepatitis B - correct answer - Serious viral disease of the liver involving gradual loss of appetite, abdomial discomfot, nausea and vomiting, joint pain and rash. Often jaundice (yellowish tint of eyes and skin) appears later.
  7. Hib - correct answer - A bateria that is the leading cause of baterial meningitis as well as pneumonia, joint or bone infections and throat inflammations. This occurs most often in children during the first five years of life.
  1. Safety Hazards - correct answer - Things in the enviroment that can be identified as dangerous to one's health and welfare.
  2. Sanitize - correct answer - The process of destroying or reducing organisms to a safe level. Includes properly cleaned equipment and surfaces, such as sinks and sleep mats.
  3. Snacks - correct answer - Any food eaten between formal meals.
  4. Substance Abuse - correct answer - On-going use of a substance which is formally considered harmful to the body and is often illegal (i.e. drugs, alcohol, tobacco)
  5. Substance Exposed Infants/Children (birth to 12) - correct answer - Infants and children whose mothers have taken one or more illegal drugs while pregnant.
  6. OPV - correct answer - A vaccine fo polio which is given orally
  7. Vaccine - correct answer - A group of substances that produce immunity to disease in a person.
  8. Heat Exhaustion - correct answer - The condition is caused by excessive sweating. The person's skin becomes pale and clammy, and the person feels sick, dizzy, and/or faint. Pulse rate and breathing become rapid, and a headache or muscle cramps may develop. Add 1 teaspoon of salt to quart of water. Take action! Parents should be notified.
  1. Heat Stroke - correct answer - Occurs because of prolonged exposure to very hot conditions. The mechanism in the brain that regulates body temperature stops functioning, and the body's temperature rapidly rises to 104 degree Fahrenheit. The person becomes flushed, with hot, dry skin and a strong, rapid pulse. He or she quickly becomes confused or unconscious. Call 911 and notify parents
  2. Dehydration - correct answer - Dry or very dry mouth. Little or no tears when crying. Less active than usual, or very fussy. Infant will wet less than 6 diapers a day; a child will make fewer trps to the restroom than he normally does. Eyes are sunken. Hands and feet are cool and blothcy. Pulse may seem weak and fast. Child will not urinate for hours.
  3. How can I tell if a child is sick? - correct answer - Check for three A's, if something seems odd check for fever.
  4. Mercury thermometer - correct answer - is not recommended, if it breaks call Poison Control Center.
  5. Yellow Fever - correct answer - Headache, jaundice, fever, vomiting and bleeding. Transmitted by mosquitos. It must be reported to CDC.
  6. Anthrax - correct answer - Reddish brown lesion that ulcerates and then forms a dark scab, later internal hemorhage, muscle pain, fever, vomiting. Transmitted by direct contact. It must be reported to CDC.
  7. Campylobacter - correct answer - Diarrhea, sometimes bloody, low grade fever abdominal cramping. Transmited by bowel movement from hands to objects to mouth or possible drinking water.

by physician. A physician may recommend certain antibiotics for exposed children and adults.

  1. Fifth Disease - correct answer - May include fever, mild flu-like symptoms and a rash. Gives a slapped cheeck appearance. Rash spreads to arms and legs but disappears after a week. Transmitted by direct contact with respiratory secretions and droplets. Most contagious before symptons occur. Wash hands. Not necessary to exclude child from school.
  2. Giardiasis - correct answer - People who feel sick may experience some or all of the following: diarrhea, gas, bloating, abdominal cramping, nausea, vomiting, weight loss and weakness. Transmitted by fecal-oral route and pets (beavers, cats, dogs and cattle) can receive/transmit. Last one to two weeks. Wash hands. Usually treated by medication prescribed by doctor.
  3. Impetigo - correct answer - Flat, yellow, crusty or weeping patch on the skin. Transmitted by infected person by hand or clothes. 5 day. Bathe daily with mild soap. 24 hours after treatment.
  4. Infectious Hepatitis - correct answer - Nausea, vimiting, extrem fatigue, often pain in upper abdomen folowed by jaundice. From 15 to 50 days. Cannot attend school/child care until released by physician or Health dept.
  5. Measles - correct answer - Spreading rash that has spread over the body. Starts from ears, neck, trunks and extremities. Direct contact with droplets spread from nose, throat, mouth. 7-14 days Report disease to CDC. Immunization of MMR
  1. Mercury Poisoning - correct answer - Chronic form includes irritability, excessive saliva, loosened teeth, gum disorders, slurred speech, Acute metallic taste in mouth, thirst, nausea, renal failuere. Transmitted by ingestion or inhalation of mercury or a mercury compound. Couple of minutes to 30 minutes. Can be found in industrial wastes, seafood, water, fungicides, antiseptics and pigments. Treatment gastric lavage with milk and eggs white or sodium bicarbonate, chelation with British anti lewisite (BAL) and fluid therapy.
  2. Mumps - correct answer - Pain in cheeks, increased by chewing. Swelling over the jaw and in front of the ear. Transmitted by coughing sneezing or saliva. 12 to 18 days Isolate until swelling disappears. Use good hand washing. Vaccine available.
  3. Pertussis (Whooping Cough) - correct answer - Tight dry cough that becomes more severe to croat, vomitting. Transmitted by infecte people. 7 to 10 days. Immunization and booster doses
  4. Pinworms - correct answer - Are tiny white worms. Symptoms are irritation and itching of the anus. Spread by swallowing pinworm eggs from anus to mouth. Isolate as long as eggs are present. Hand washing after toileting/diaper. Consult physician.
  5. Plague - correct answer - Painful enlarged lymph nodes in the axilla, groin or neck, fever rising to 106 F, introduce into the body by the bite of rat flea that has bitten an infected rat. Reportable disease to CDC. Treatment Antibiodics.
  6. Polio - correct answer - Transmitted by infected people. 7 to 12 days Polio Vaccine. Isolation for 1 week.
  1. Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning - correct answer - Nausea, light headedness, vomiting and tingling or numbness around mouth, followed by the paralysis of the extremities and possibly respiratory paralysis. Transmitted by easting clams, oysters or mussel that ingested poisonous protozoa "red tide". Within a few minutes of ingestion. Reportable disease. Treatment intravenous injection of weak solution of prostigmin methylsulfate and oxygen and artificial respiration.
  2. Strep Infections - correct answer - Steptoccocci of several strains cause scarlet fever and strep/sore throat. Secretions from mouth, nose and ears. Transmitted by infeced people. 1 to 3 days Isolation for 1 day after treatment of antibiotics.
  3. Tetanus - correct answer - Tetanus bacillus present in wound through soil contact with horses, street dust, farms. 4 to 3 weeks Immunization
  4. Tuberculosis - correct answer - Consist of listlessness, loss of apetite, weight loss and low grade fever. Transmitted by ingestion of infected droplets. 4 to 6 weeks Vaccination.
  5. Typhus - correct answer - Headaches, chills, fever, malaise and maculopapular rash. Transmitted from rodents to humans by bites of lice, fleas, ticks or mites. Typhus vaccine.
  6. Vibrio Cholera - correct answer - Severe diarrhea and vomitting, muscular cramps, dehydration and depletion of electrolytes. Transmitted by spead by water and food that have been contaminated by feces of persons infected. Reportabel disease to CDC. Vaccination and boiling drinking water and eating only cooked foods. Treatment of antibiotics and drinking more water and electrolytes drinks.
  1. Recovery Position of Heat Stroke - correct answer - requires the person to be on back, stablized and airways open to prevent choking. www.redcross.org
  2. Steps to recover from dehydration - correct answer - Give plenty of water every 30 o 60 minutes, do not give milk, do not give sports drink, monitor food and drink intake, record temperature and communicate with parents.
  3. Call the parents, and if necessary suggest to the parents that the child needs ____________ attention. - correct answer - medical
  4. Fungi - correct answer - Grow best in warm, moist places. Can cause athlete's fod and ringworm. EFfective medication available. Medications work best when conditions favorable to fungal growth are removed.
  5. Virus - correct answer - Smaller than bacteria. Grow only in living cells. Can cause colds, chicken pox, measles, German Measles, mumps. Antibiotics have no effect. REst is the best action; body fights better when rested. Vaccines against common ones are available.
  6. Bacteria - correct answer - Small organisims seen with an ordinary microscope. CAn cause strep throat, impetigo, pink eye and som pneumonia. Antiboiotics help stop growth.
  7. Parasites - correct answer - Organisms that live on or in animals and people. Common examples include pinwoms, roundworms, head lice. Effective medications are available for most.

secured bag, WAsh your hands thoroughly, change diapers on ono- porous surface, do no share personal hygiene items like toothbrushes, use disposable sheaths on thermometers, wash linens and clothing that becom contaminate separately from other laundry, do not alow babies and toddlers to share teething toys, sanitize these after every use. teach children not to be pick off scabs, cover open wounds on both children and caregivers

  1. Proper method for changing a glove - correct answer - Grasp palm, pull gove off toward fingers, turning it inside out, throw the glove into a plastic bag that can be seted, Run your ungloved index finger under the remainin glove cuff, pull, the glove off, turning it inside out, put the soiled glove in the plastic bag.
  2. Changing Diaper - correct answer - Get ready, avoid contact with soil cloth, clean diaper area front to back, remove soil diaper and clean any soied surface, put on clean diaper, clean baby's hands disposable wipe, clean and disinfect the diaper changing area, wash hands and record in child's journal.
  3. What do you do? During small group time, you notice Charles is having difficulty breathing and is wheezing. - correct answer - Assume this could be life threatening. Call parents and 911.
  4. What do you do? You notice Chelsea scratching the back of her head vigorously at dress-up center. - correct answer - Put on gloves and check head for lice, scabies or rash. If lice, send Chelsea home w/info. Santize dress-up clothe, carpets and stuff animals.
  5. What do you do? At sensory table chanie sneezes into water. - correct answer - Ask Chaniec to blow nose and wash hands. Change

water and sanitize and all children playing at the same sensory table to wash hands as well.

  1. All meat, poultry, fish dairy products and procssed food must be inspected by - correct answer - the USDA
  2. Prohibited foods are - correct answer - raw milk, home canned food, home-grown eggs, recalled foods products
  3. Refrigerators must be maintained at - correct answer - 41 Fahrenheit or below
  4. Milk and food must not sit out for longe than - correct answer - 15 minutes
  5. Hot foods should be at - correct answer - 135 degrees Fahrenheit or above
  6. Open packages of perishable must be properly - correct answer - covered/sealed and discarded within 7 days
  7. Any leftovers should be - correct answer - refrigerated within two hours.
  8. Safety hazards is - correct answer - anything in the environment that can be dangerous to a child's health or welfare.
  1. How can a caregiver help to prevent accidents? - correct answer - Careful constant supervision, maintain a neat orderly environment, teaching children safe behaviors, providing ask and skill-level approp. toys, having a person on premises at all time who know first aid and CPR
  2. Hazards on playground - correct answer - sharp corners, rusted and decreted equipment, pond not enclosed, unfenced areas
  3. Hazards with Electical outlets - correct answer - toys near outles, too many cords, unprotected outlets
  4. Hazards with bathrooms - correct answer - spills, cleaning products, hot water faucet
  5. Hazards with playpens - correct answer - rips and tears, small toys, sharp objects near playpen
  6. Lockdown Procedures - correct answer - involves gathering children and staff in classroom and closing and locking all doors and windows and turning off lights. Everyone is to remain quiet and appear vacant.
  7. Evacuation - correct answer - Fire will require evacuation which involves leaving the building or campus in an emergency. Other threats are bomb or chemical release.
  8. Shelter-in-Place Procedure - correct answer - Inclement weather such as a tornado that threatens with little warning will require you to

shelter-in-place. This involves creating a shelter out of the place where children and staff are by making the building as safe as posible from an outside threat.

  1. Best practices of Car Seats, Safety Belts, and the Law - correct answer - Children under 3 must be in secured child-restraint.
  2. Children under 4 through 5 secured in child-restraint or seat belt. Location-inside vehicle, direction-car seat faces, Seat belt path-correct, Tightness-firmness seat held in place.
  3. Food experiences also have an impact on: - correct answer - Social Skills or behaviors durng meal times.
  4. Motor Skill or dexteriy in handling utensils and food.
  5. When is it appropiate to prop bottle? - correct answer - Never. It is important to hold infants during this time.
  6. Where should you place the spoon when you feed a child solid food?
- correct answer - In the middle of the child's tongue.
  1. When should you burp an infant during feeding? - correct answer - Middle and end.
  2. Basic nutritional needs of babies 0-4 weeks: - correct answer - 8 - 12 feedings of Breast milk or 14-43 ounces Formula
  3. Basic nutritional need of 1-4 month old baby is: - correct answer - 6 - 10 feedings of Breat milk or 14-43 ounces Formula