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Lindsay Gates
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Hi Jill,

I am much less experienced in this than many of these other ladies and gents, but I just wanted to add a persepective. The camp I am with is a Boy Scouts of America camp, they use the National Camp Accreditation Program for their accreditation, I know another common one used at many camps is American Camp Association. Do you know who your camp is accredited by? That provides a starting place for operating guidelines.

For example: per the National Camp Accreditation Program
-When EMS is LESS than 10 minutes away, the “camp health officer” must be **certified** in American Red Cross Standard First Aid and CPR/AED for healthcare personnel or other equivalent (American Heart Association programs is an equivalent example.)
-When EMS is MORE than 10 minutes away, the “camp health officer” must be **licensed** as a physician, nurse practitioner, nurse (LPN or RN), physician assistant, paramedic or EMT.
-When EMS is MORE than 60 minutes away, in additioned to being a **licensed** professional, they “camp health officer” must also be certified in American Red Cross Wilderness and Remote First Aid.

So that dictates who can staff our med lodge- scope of practice and proximity to emergency services.

Another thing that I find helpful is that our medical protocols (standing orders) are color coded based on a protocol legend. It’s a long explaination, but one of the color codes indicates the medical protocol can only be carried out by an EMT or higher, the best example of this would be administering over the counter medication per standard order. Basically below the level of EMT we’re just talking about putting on ice and band-aids.

Hope that helps!