Employee health

[Alex Egan, LPN, EMT-B]

Hi all,

I find each year we end up being the employee health department for our counselor staff. More concerning is that a lot of our staff is stuck at camp, as they are foreign and don't have cars in our rural area. We keep charts on all our staff and have them see our camp doctor, and bill them if they need drugs. I wonder how your camp does it?

Also every year without fail we get asked for a pregnancy test, or an HIV screening (immigration reasons). Is this a situation your camp comes across, an how do you handle it? We generally send the staff member to see the shopper to arrange a OTC test. Thank God no positive results , but I often think what the heck we would do with that. This was an aspect of the job I was totally unprepared, has anyone else dealt with this? I guess we would refer them to urgent care if we couldn't easily arrange treatment.

It seems like this is not something planed for, or even mentioned, and I'm wondering if anyone has a better grasp on this then me.