Overnight Field Trip

[SchoolNurseK, BSN, RN]

We have a team going to a competition several hours from our school, so they will be staying overnight.  Some parents have opted to attend and their student will stay with them in a hotel room.  We will have four additional students that are fully vaccinated and three that are not that will need to be placed into two hotel rooms.  I have been asked to advise admin on the sleeping arrangements.  Do I split up the vaccinated and un-vaccinated to reduce risk or do I keep all vaccinated kids together?  I have no idea how best to approach this!

HELP!

[amoLucia]

Sheesh - what else do you guys have to be responsible for???

Like, who'd have thought of this???

[SchoolNurseK, BSN, RN]

1 minute ago, amoLucia said:

Sheesh - what else do you guys have to be responsible for???

Like, who'd have thought of this???

For real.  This is exactly why I feel fried.  I want to throw my hands up and say, "I have no idea and I cannot make any more decisions about anything!" but alas, I must remain professional and try to keep my brain going in the right direction.  Counting down the days....27 more.

[beachynurse, ASN, BSN]

I would probably keep the vaccinated kids together and the unvaccinated ones together. This minimizes risk, and if the parents are uncomfortable they can come along and stay with their kids in their own rooms. I don't like the idea of splitting them up..

[LikeTheDeadSea, MSN, RN]

I read a good article related to camp staff training weeks and creating cohorts, which could be applied to this.  Unfortunately I can't find it, it was in early April.

Keeping vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals initially makes sense, but in the event of a positive case, this also has the most amount of people in quarantine and highest risk of transmission if it occurs in the completely unvaccinated group.

If the cohorts are mixed, then less people need to quarantine due to their vaccination status, and the risk for spread amongst that entire cohort is lower, minimizing the amount of larger community impact. 

[SchoolNurseK, BSN, RN]

7 minutes ago, LikeTheDeadSea said:

If the cohorts are mixed, then less people need to quarantine due to their vaccination status, and the risk for spread amongst that entire cohort is lower, minimizing the amount of larger community impact. 

This was exactly my thought in mixing the vaccinated and un-vaccinated students.  I appreciate your input and I will try to find that article.

[JenTheSchoolRN, BSN, RN]

UGH. Why is the school allowing this? Overnight field trips (actually field trips in general) are a big N-O in my state. Our sports teams are not allowed to compete out of state.

I do have to cohort teams by bus, though, for away games. And that is more than enough for me. I'm sorry you have take this on.

But for what it is worth, it actually doesn't matter to mix vaccinated and unvaccinated. The vaccinated will not have to quarantine if anyone else tests positive unless they become symptomatic themselves. To be honest, this entire group is already a mixed cohort I'd consider all exposed to each other because of sports (I assume sports, correct?) so it really doesn't matter.