Gender-neutral toilet

The Environment Rating Scale is an incredibly useful tool when utilized properly. It gives clear-cut, clean guidelines for a school/daycare environment and an overall decent idea of what a healthy, happy atmosphere looks like. When using the scale for the first time it may seem imposing because there is just so much information to address and process. I think to avoid being overwhelmed by it is to simply use it over and over again until it becomes second nature. It is an impressive tool that…

in home environment. 3. Transfers – most transfers will be difficult for the patient (ex. w/c to bed, bed to w/c, toile transfers). Due to paresis, maximum assistance is required during transfers. • Goal: Patient will be able to transfer on/off (toilet, chair, w/c) with minimum assistance and with the use of AE/DME to regain independence in bathroom…

Active Listening, Additional Support, and Effective Communication Active listening is imperative to be successful in any line of work, though it is specifically important in education because educators need to understand the parent’s viewpoints and feelings. Active listening can be defined as “the skill required to simply “feed back” the deeper felt message (not words) of the sender in the words of the receiver” (p. 151). Active listening involves going past listening to the sender in order to…

Think about doing your laundry for a second. You dump out all the clothes out of your laundry bin and into the washer, pour some detergent, (or throw a couple of tide pods in there, whatever you prefer) and hit the start button and come back to it when its done. Okay, I know its A LOT more complicated than this, but this is basically my experience with doing the laundry. Working is like doing laundry, well doing laundry is work, but you know what I mean. Emptying your laundry bin is just like…

trenches were horrible when it came to the hygiene of it. It had the rotten smell of decaying men and feces from the soldier's. The smell of the human feces brought all the rodents and the maggots to the trenches. (The life on the front line) The toilets left the dead soldiers, some of them were left in the sun, and others were buried in the trenches. The…

I began having to rush to the restroom once again, constantly worrying where the nearest toilet was on campus. My colon had become inflamed and more and more blood started to coat my toilet bowl. I called my doctor and we started to try and to get things under control. I started an aggressive steroid treatment in an attempt to quench the fire that had started in my colon. I managed to get…

D. Describe the practices you could implement in an early childhood education and care service to ensure that each child has clean bedding for rest and sleep times. A. In a child care setting it is important that each child has their own bed, it is not ok to let children share and sleep on beds and blankets used by another child due to possible infection spreading. Cots, beds and mattresses should be cleaned after each child has used them which means we need to strip bedding and wipe all…

children to be toilet trained but allow them to choose when they are ready, and assist them when they are. Lindsay and I have been using this method, wanting his curiosity to lead him to be ready. The average age children are ready for toilet training is at 22 months (1 year, 10 months), however this is simply an average, and some children will be ready before or after this period. In Ryder’s case, he became ready for toilet training at a little after 2 years, making it to the toilet about 60%…

Water can leak from pipes behind walls, from pipes under a kitchen or bathroom sink and from pipes around or behind the base of a toilet. Water can damage sheetrock walls, cabinets and flooring and enough water over time can cause mold growth. If you see a puddle where you shouldn’t be seeing one, call a professional plumber who has the right equipment to find the source of the leak…

One can only imagine the feeling of coming home one day and turning on their tap water for a shower and see that their water ran a strange color other than clear. That’s what many residents of northern Chesapeake have experienced in the recent months. Another family experienced their tap water having a distinct foul taste. Some of the residents tried to remedy their problem by cleaning faucets and shower heads all around the house. One has even replaced their faucet and shower heads multiple…