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Hello Friends:
The lovely medication management saga continues. You all have addressed most of the issues in making these decisions:
1. Some insurances won’t pay for a pre-packaged service
2. Parents forget or delay the process as they don’t think about camp until 48 hours beforehand
3. There are nuances like vitamins, supplements, and homeopathics (depending on what your camp calls a med)
We encourage you to have a good medication management policy. Outline what is acceptable/not acceptable at your camp and share that information early and often with parents and families. All states require that nurses have a prescriber order for any medications – prescription or OTC. Nurses do not have scope of practice in the US to make decisions regarding medication intervention. The same rules that apply in a hospital setting in your state apply to a camp setting in your state. This is often overlooked and individuals fail to realize the potential repercussions of these decisions.
There is not a right or wrong answer here, but what I most often here is that there is no one way to do medication management. Even if you use a pre-packaged service, you will still have outliers that you might need to accomodate or work with to get those children to camp. Often, those are the children who need camp the most.
Best to you all
Tracey Gaslin