NEW! Online Learning Course: Preventing and Managing Infectious Diseases in Early Education and Child Care Description: This course provides you with reliable national resources for guidance on preventing and managing infectious diseases and is designed for everyone who cares for children, including health care professionals and child care providers.  Learning Objectives: Upon its completion, you will be able to: 1. Recognize how infectious diseases (ID) are spread. 2. Identify the role of caregivers in preventing or controlling the spread of ID by hygiene, immunization, environmental controls, and healthy lifestyle. 3. Recognize the actions involved in conducting a daily health check. 4. Identify the criteria for excluding an ill child from attending child care and recognize when it is not helpful.  Note to child care providers: This course is approved for 3.0 contact hours. Once you have completed the course, click the “Claim Your Credit” link on the side navigation bar to print your certificate of completion. Please check with your local licensing/regulatory contact to find out if this will meet your training hours requirement. * This online module is for educational purposes only. The Preventing and Managing Infectious Diseases in Early Education and Child Care online module is funded through grants from McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. 1|Rev 9/12/2013 Preventing and Managing Infectious Diseases in Early Education and Child Care Course Online Instructions for Registering & Accessing the Please review these instructions before registering for the course. You may want to print these instructions and have them at hand while registering. To complete this course you need an AAP account (Login & Password). If you already have an AAP account, ‘skip’ to Part Two to register for the course. PART ONE – Creating an AAP Account.  Follow the steps below to create an AAP account (Login & Password). 1. Click the following link to create an account: http://bit.ly/AAPregister * You will need an email address to set up your account. 2. Click on the ‘Individual’ button. 2|Rev 9/12/2013 3. Complete the entire form and click ‘continue’ at the bottom. 4. Follow all the prompts to the end to establish your AAP Login & Password, only after you obtain an AAP account will you be able to register for the Preventing and Managing Infectious Diseases in Early Education and Child Care. *Please make sure to write down your AAP ID and Password so you can refer to it later. *Now you have your AAP account. You can close the website window you are currently in and move onto PART TWO – Registering for the course 3|Rev 9/12/2013 PART TWO – Registering for the course. 1. Click on the following link to register for the Preventing and Managing Infectious Diseases in Early Education and Child Care Course: http://bit.ly/infdisease and select the ‘register’ button. 2. Type in your AAP Login & Password and click the small arrow underneath. 3. Click on ‘Register as Individual’ 4. Click on ‘Continue with Registration’ and verify your information. 4|Rev 9/12/2013 5. You should see the name of the course, click ‘Sign Up’ button. 6. To complete registration select ‘Check Out Now’ at the bottom of page. * No ‘Promo Code’ is needed. 7. Make sure to follow all prompts until you click on “Submit Order” --- This will be the last step in registering for the course. *You have now registered for the course. You can close the website window you are currently in and move onto PART THREE – Accessing the course. 5|Rev 9/12/2013 PART THREE – Accessing the course.  Follow these steps to access the course: 1. Go to www.pedialink.org 2. Enter your AAP Login and Password in the boxes on the right side of screen. 3. Click on the green CME tab located on the top of the screen. 4. Click the “launch” button next to Preventing and Managing Infectious Diseases in Early Education and Child Care. 6|Rev 9/12/2013 PART FOUR – Claiming Credit and Printing Certificate. Before you can claim credit, you MUST make sure you have completed all parts of the course: Pre-Assessment Questions Demographic Questions Post-Assessment Questions. 7|Rev 9/12/2013 There are three (3) different ways for claiming credit and printing a certificate. Reminder: Before you can claim credit, you MUST make sure you have completed all parts of the course: 1. You can select “Click Here” after completing your Post-Assessment 2. You may click on “Claim Credit” from the ‘homepage’ of the course. 8|Rev 9/12/2013 3. You may also select “Claim Credit or Contact Hours” on the left-hand side of the course’s homepage in the navigation bar area. Whichever way you select, you will be brought over to the below screen. Please make sure that you follow the instructions depending on whether you’re a ‘”Health Care Professional”, “Child Care Provider”. If you are licensed or qualify for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits then select the “Claim” link for CME Credits. 9|Rev 9/12/2013