Overnight out of state field trips

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What is your advice on 3 night 4 day disney trip with band and chorus HS age? Chaperoning and nursing suggestions please. TIA

Specializes in kids.

One year I went and spent the majority of my time with a Downs kiddo..fun but exhausting! When I got home, my really good beer was MIA, apparently my son had gotten a ride home from college and went shopping, in my house....my fridge!!!!!:mad:

He knew the student (small town) that I spent a lot of time with, so when I called him on it he was ever so apologetic!!!! Sucked up for a good long time after that!!!

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Thanks!!!

Okay, I go on a 5 day multi state trip with 100 10th graders next week!

I will MISS you guys, but I'll have the app.

The secretary in charge of the trip (not mine) gives me a binder with meds, health issues and signed permission slips. I bring stock Tylenol, Ibupofofen, Bendedryl, Epi, Tums, pads and tampons. I bring a portable AED. Bandages. Garbage bags for puke.

I call the parents with prescribed meds and tell them I must hold the meds. Then the kids come to me when they need their meds. I try to make it private, but lots of time the kids are like, everyone knows I have ADHD, no biggie.

This years class are a bunch of partiers. The AP brings a breathalyzer.

The big boys help me carry my nursing bag.

The girls SING on the bus, and they never stop singing. Ever.

The anti vaxx teacher is usually on my bus, and I have to smack him down.

May the odds be ever in your favor

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How does the compensation work for overnight/weekend trips? I think the entire trip should be compensated because you are on duty the whole time. "Others" feel differently. I do not go on trips. Ever. But some of the other nurses do.

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Specializes in School Nurse.

Our band manages to wrangle a parent who is either an MD or RN to come along on the field trips.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Gastroenterology, School Nrs.

Don't do it!!

Our students do an 8th grade trip to DC and our band does a Disney trip over Christmas break. For each of those trip, students are responsible for their own medications. It's not even something that comes across my desk. The arranging teachers provide the students with a form to be completed by the parents and their physician and then, at check-in, before departure, the teachers have to be shown the medication, the amount in the bottle, where it will be kept, etc... while the parent is present.

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What app?

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Specializes in Pediatrics, school nursing.
What app?

There used to be an app for AN, but they got rid of it a year or two ago.

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