[Multidisciplinary Patrol Supervision of Nursery Services Focusing on the Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle: Exploration and Practice Based on the Integration of Medical Care and Education].

Nursery services are a vital component of childcare for infants and toddlers. The quality and management of nursery services significantly impact the holistic development of infants and toddlers in terms of their physical, psychological, and social skills and capabilities. The first 1000 days in the life of an infant or toddler are a critical period that shapes their health status for their whole life, which highlights the need to prioritize health in childcare for infants and toddlers and to approach daily childcare services from a medical perspective. Based on the approach of integrating medical care and education, we innovatively explored and constructed a multidisciplinary patrol supervision model for childcare services, focusing on the PDCA cycle (Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle). We aim at establishing a multidisciplinary team of medical and nursing experts who provide evaluation and guidance for the institutional management, health management for infants and toddlers, disease prevention, and risk identification and screening of childcare services for infants and toddlers. This approach addresses the issue of the simplistic nature of the traditional patrol supervision involving only childcare physicians, improves service quality with high efficiency, meets the expectations of both childcare service providers and the families of infants and toddlers-the users of childcare services, enhances the effective implementation of childcare for infants and toddlers based on the integration of medical care and education, and improves the quality of a health-centered approach to childcare for infants and toddlers.