Medication Administration in Child Care: Ensuring Children's Safety
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- Course
- Date of Publication
- July 7, 2021
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Overview
Course Information
Medication Administration in Child Care: Ensuring Children's Safety is a 2-hour online course that is part of a series of online trainings designed to help you, as child care providers and directors, implement current, research-based best practices in your child care environments.
This course is designed to provide you with information that will help you safely administer medications to children in your child care program.
This training course was developed and produced by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service of the Texas A&M University System in cooperation with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, Child Care Licensing Division, and using funds provided by the Texas Workforce Commission.
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