Trip & travel groups

[Annony RN]

Our camp has a policy to take temps on kids before (within 24 hrs) and after every group of girls that leaves camp on an outing.

My ACA manual has gone missing from my office (ugh, the frustration)

can anyone tell me if this is an ACA standard or just a camp sacred cow?

When a group is leaving daily, would it be acceptable to take temps before the first trip, then after every subsequent trip (using Mondays post trip temp as Tuesdays pre trip temp and so on?)

[Alex Egan, LPN, EMT-B]

I think the ACA doesn't have any regulations on temps around trips that I could find. It seems like a classic case if information that I would now have to do something about. If I find out you have a temp of 99.9 before you leave, but you feel fine. However now the nurse has to decide to keep or send the camper based on the data found. Not even based on how the camper feels.

I use my phone, to type, I work at night, and I'm a bad speller. Pick any reason you want for my misspellings

[Annony RN]

Lol. Yes. Indeed. I feel like I care more about general energy vs fatigue before most trips and injuries, fatigue, headache, nausea after trips.

From an infection standpoint- if a kid contracts a dreaded contagious disease or wound infection during their travels, a temp check withon two hours of returning will tell us nothing.

I just found the ACA manual snd went through TR and HW sections with no answers. I think it's a camp sacred cow or maybe shared with our affiliated camps. I'm going to work on something more practical- informative and time saving!

Thanks!

[CloudySue]

It seems as though each camp has their own health fixation. We never take temps on a seemingly healthy camper, not even on arrival.

My camp is huge on checking heads for lice. They have a check coming in, which is pretty much the norm everywhere, but they get their head checked at their weekly weigh-in, and also every time they leave camp on a trip they get checked upon their return. I, for one, appreciate the extra caution.

The camp I worked at before this one was all about BM's. The counselors had to check off EVERY day if their campers had a BM. if three days passed there was a huge protocol starting w prune juice, then fiber supplements, up to Miralax.

[Azariahjoe]

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