Korean J Child Health Nurs.  2004 Jul;10(3):361-366.

Nursing Consideration of the Infant Care Act and Suggestion on Its Enforcement Decree and Regulations

• Kim IO
• Kim MY

Abstract

PURPOSE
This descriptive study was conducted to illuminate, from the nursing point of view, the infant care act, which was revised recently and to suggest a desirable direction of its enforcement decree and regulations. METHOD: This study was carried out through literature review and a collection of child care experts' opinions.
RESULTS
The most remarkable changes in infant care act and the suggestions for a desirable direction of its enforcement decree and regulations are as follows: It can be said that the law on 'health', 'nutrition' and 'safety' for a child care center was improved to the level of act from the level of enforcement regulation. In the enforcement regulation on the distribution of nurses in child care centers, it is desirable that nurse's aids are excluded. It is recommended that every child care center should have a nurse or a health care manager and/or an emergency caretaker. In the curriculum for child care, the subjects on child health care should be an essential subject, not elective.
CONCLUSION
Child care act should be reformed under the discipline of first priority to child health. Every nurse and nursing professor should have interest and earnestness in child care and conduct related studies.

MeSH Terms

Child
Child Care
Curriculum
Delivery of Health Care
Emergencies
Humans
Infant
Infant Care*
Infant*
Jurisprudence
Nursing*
Social Control, Formal*
Child Health