Florida Administrative Code › 65 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES › 65C - Family Safety and Preservation Program › Chapter 65C-25 - SPECIALIZED CHILD CARE FACILITIES FOR THE CARE OF MILDLY-ILL CHILDREN › Section 65C-25.001 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) "Child Care for Mildly Ill Children" -
				means the care of children with short term illness or symptoms of illness or
				disability, provided either as an exclusive service in a center specialized for
				this purpose, or as a component of other child care services offered in a
				distinct part of a regularly licensed child care facility, for a period of less
				than 24 hours per day.
(2)
				"Specialized Child Care Facilities for the Care of Mildly Ill Children" - means
				a child care facility that provides child care for more than five mildly ill
				children unrelated to the operator, and receives a payment, fee, or grant for
				any of the children receiving care. Specialized child care facilities may
				provide care for mildly ill children in a facility specialized for this purpose
				or as a component of other child care services offered in a distinct and
				separate part of a regularly licensed child care facility.
(3) "Contagious disease" means an infectious
				disease caused by receiving living germs directly from the person afflicted
				with the disease, or by contact with a secretion of the afflicted person, or by
				some object handled or used by an afflicted person.
(4) "Health Provider Consultant" means a
				Florida licensed pediatric physician; a Florida licensed family practitioner; a
				physician's assistant; an advanced registered nurse practitioner (ARNP) with
				pediatric experience; or a registered nurse with experience in pediatric
				nursing, who supervises or provides direction to the licensed health caregiver,
				and is available for consultation.
(5) "Immediate" means occuring, acting, or
				accomplished without loss or interval of time.
(6) "Isolation area" - means a room or a
				series of rooms within the child care facility for mildly ill children that
				provides separate airflow, and physical separation, from the rest of the
				facility. The isolation area must include a separate toilet, handwashing
				facility and diaper changing area. This area shall be utilized when caring for
				children with contagious diseases.
(7) "Licensed Health Caregiver" means, at a
				minimum, a licensed practical nurse who has knowledge and experience in the
				routine medical needs of mildly ill children, is trained to perform the written
				physical assessment, and is under the direction of a health provider
				consultant.
(8) "Mildly Ill
				children" - means children exhibiting illnesses or symptoms of illnesses which
				have caused or would cause them to be excluded from regular child care
				settings, as defined in the Child Care Facility Handbook, Section 6.1.D.,
				incorporated by reference in Rule
				 65C-22.001, F.A.C., and who need
				special attention and supervision, and meet the admission criteria for mildly
				ill programs as described in Rule
				 65C-25.002, F.A.C., of this
				rule.
(9) "Sanitize" as it refers
				to linen, means adding one quarter cup of bleach per gallon of water to the
				final rinse cycle of the wash, in an effort to eliminate children's exposure to
				disease microorganisms.
(10)
				"Single-service articles" - means any cups, containers, closures, plates,
				straws, place mats, napkins, doilies, spoons, stirrers, paddles, knives, forks,
				wrapping materials and all similar materials which are constructed wholly or in
				part from paper, paperboard, molded pulp, foil, wood, plastic, synthetic or any
				other readily destructible material, and are intended by the manufacturer to be
				for one-time, one-person use, and then to be discarded.
Rulemaking Authority
					 402.305 FS. Law Implemented
					 402.305
					 FS.
New 5-21-00, Amended 7-13-03,
					 11-26-19.