As the rate of children under five years of age being admitted to day-care centers and a demand for all-day programs are on the increase in modern society, a increasing number of them spend all day in nursery schools, which come to take a responsibili...
As the rate of children under five years of age being admitted to day-care centers and a demand for all-day programs are on the increase in modern society, a increasing number of them spend all day in nursery schools, which come to take a responsibility for disease/emergency management which parents were thought to be responsible for. Studies of the actual conditions of emergency treatment and its importance leave much to be desired; the education of child emergency management has been only a part of safety education and studies of emergency management simply focus on the prevention of safety-related accidents at child nurseries and accident-prevention programs for parents and teachers. Most of the studies concentrate on prevention, stopping short of covering how to deal with situations after the occurrence of accidents. In this context, this study is designed to look into the actual conditions of child-care institutions coping with emergency situations and the awareness of the teachers about emergency treatment.
The following are the research problems.
First, how is the actual condition of the emergency treatment of all-day child-care institutions?
Second, how is the extent of the teachers working for them in regard to emergency treatment?
Third, how is the actual condition of the emergency-treatment education of the teachers?
The researcher made study of 62 child-care institutions located in Seoul and 188 teachers with the aid of questionnaires both for facilities and teachers, making an analysis of data with SPSS WIN 12.0 through frequency per question and percentage.
The following are the findings.
First, the survey on the actual conditions of all-day child-care institutions in terms of emergency treatment shows that they keep almost all the documents related to emergency treatment in good condition but that some documents related to the procedures of emergency treatment and disease need to be improved.
Second, the survey on the actual condition of the teachers working for all-day child-care institutions reveals that the subjects have some knowledge of how to deal with emergency situations, but that some teachers have misunderstandings of emergency-treatment tricks.
Third, the survey on the actual condition of the education of the teachers indicates that a majority of the teachers took lessons on emergency education while at school but that less than half of them didn't get education once a year. It is necessary that emergency treatment should be reinforced in consideration of its importance.
Although child-care institutions have the risk of accidents taking place all the time and it is hard to predict them, the acquisition of first-aid knowledge based on medical foundation and expertise is of great account. It is incumbent upon the teachers to take rapid and properaction to emergency situation, to prevent the emergency situation from getting worse, to save children and to rid them of danger.