Treatment Protocols?

Did you ever find any resources?
I too am updated my church camp nursing policies. Currently I have been following my hospital's P&P (children's hospital) and rewriting them to fit the camp environment. I have also found good info at the AAP website, stuff on how to treat fevers, etc.
Angela
p.s. Please share if you find anything good.

I've went ahead and started writing my own. I'm using the children's hospital that I work at as a reference starting point. Someone also told me to check out the Boy/Girl Scouts medical badge or wilderness badge stuff. I haven't searched it out yet.

I don't know as much about Boy Scouts, but I can tell you there's absolutely nothing relevant in any of the Girl Scout badge books. The physician associated with the camp wrote our protocols years ago; subsequent physicians have updated them here and there, as whoever has that role has to sign off each year. Is writing treatment protocols and standing orders (obviously you'd have a physician sign them off) really a nursing role?

Laughing--I definitely know what you mean. No one else in the camp probably REALLY cares, or understands, right?

Could you contact a camper's parent who is a doctor and might be willing to help you draft them? You could make a list of the problems you frequently encounter at camp, along with possible emergencies, and ask the doctor to look them over and write protocols.

You may be able to simplify standing orders with a form signed by parents on which they check off which of the OTC drugs you stock can be given to their kids.

Good luck!

I found a resource for camp protocols. The "Camp Nursing" book by Linda Erceg is a great resource. There are treatment protocols in the back of the book. I bet you could write to the publisher to get permission to reproduce it for your camp. You can't just copy them verbaitem, as that is plagerism. These are all within the nuses scope of practice.

The exact title of the book is called The Basics of Camp Nursing by Linda Ebner Erceg and Myra Pravda . It is endorsed and published by the American Camping Association. You should be able to get it on Amazon. The treatment protocols are on pp. 117-142.

Same problem with our camp. The protocols are very outdated and most of them are simply incomplete or don't exist. Currently we do not have a medical director but are searching for one. The reason I have agreed to take this task on is because my license is on the line and I wan't good protocols in place for all the nursing staff, not just myself. Many of the nurse who work at camp come from adult or nursery backgrounds and are completely clueless at what to do for kids. I have the experience to know and I'm completely aware that what is in place now is not adequate.
I am currently borrowing that camp book that is mentioned above. It has given me some good ideas to implement. I am making a list.
My hope is that we will find a physician who is willing to sign off on what I have written.

How about as we write these we can compare notes and help each other out? I would be happy to share what I have written if you others would also. What do you think?
Angie