The role of a kindergarden teacher in preventing infections and common infection disseases

Raziskovalni problem pričujočega diplomskega dela z naslovom Vloga vzgojitelja pri preprečevanju okužb in pogostih nalezljivih bolezni so pogoste nalezljive bolezni predšolskega otroka in vloga vzgojitelja pri prepoznavanju in pravilnem ukrepanju ob pojavu nalezljivih bolezni v vrtcu. V teoretičnem delu smo opredelili najpogostejše povzročitelje okužb in načine širjenja nalezljivih bolezni. Osredotočili smo se na vlogo, naloge in dolžnosti vzgojitelja pri odkrivanju bolezni, preprečevanju okužb, prepoznavanju bolezenskih znakov, simptomov in stanj, krepitvi imunskega sistema predšolskega otroka in pri svetovanje staršem. Predstavili smo tudi potrebne ukrepe, ki jim morajo slediti tako strokovni delavci kot tudi starši in vrtci ob pojavu oziroma sumu na nalezljivo bolezen. V empiričnem delu so predstavljeni rezultati, ki smo jih pridobili z anketnim vprašalnikom v vrtcu Šentjur, ki so ga izpolnjevale vzgojiteljice in pomočnice vzgojiteljic. V raziskavi smo želeli ugotoviti, ali imajo vzgojiteljice in pomočnice vzgojiteljic dovolj znanja in kako ukrepajo pri pojavu okužbe pri otroku. Podatke smo obdelali s pomočjo programa SPSS. Raziskava je pokazala, da imajo vzgojiteljice in pomočnice dovolj znanja o preprečevanju širjenja okužb ne glede na starost in delovno mesto. Ugotovili smo, da so v času izobraževanja pridobile premalo znanja z zdravstveno-preventivnega področja.The main research problem of the graduate assigment »The role of a kindergarden teacher in preventing infections and common infection disseases« are: common infection disseases of preschool child and the role of the educator at recognizing and correctly acting at appearance of dissease. In the theoretical part, we defined the most common producers of disseases and ways of spreading infectious disseases. We focused on a role, assigments and duty of the educator at dissease appearance, signs, simptoms and conditions, at strengthening the immune system of preschool children and advising parents. We also introduced major conditions, which must be followed by professional workers as parents and kindergardens at the apperance of infection disseases. In the empirical part, the final results were introduced, which were acquired with survey questionnaires from the kindergarden in Šentjur, with the help of the educator and their assistans. In the research, we tried to find out if educators and their assistans have enough knowledge and how do they act at dissease apperances on children. Data was processed with SPSS program. Research showed us, that educators and assistans have enough knowledge at preventing the spread of infections not considering age and work place. We found out, that in the time of education, they acquired too little knowledge from the health-preventive area