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Chapter 18 of 30 · 1 min read

Overnight Camp Medication and Health Cover

Have qualified people define the health cover, facilities and medication procedures your overnight program needs. Plan access, records, handovers and outside help for day and night. Requirements depend on campers, activities, remoteness and local rules.

Have a qualified reviewer define your health arrangements. The needed staffing, credentials, equipment, and medical oversight depend on the program, participants, remoteness, and local requirements.

Write how medicines are received, checked, stored, accessed, administered, recorded, and returned. Staff must act within their training and legal authority. Do not let a general handbook become a medication instruction sheet.

Make emergency medication available according to the approved plan during meals, activities, trips, and nights. A system that works only in the health room may fail elsewhere.

Keep confidential individual action plans for relevant conditions. Give workers the information needed to act safely, not unrestricted access to every health record.

Plan for a worker becoming ill or a health lead leaving site. The camp should not lose essential coverage because one person drives to a clinic.

Document care factually and promptly. Record what happened, actions taken, who was contacted, and the handover. Do not ask a child to carry a private medical message between adults.

Your task: Test a medication handover across day staff, night staff, and an off-site activity.

Put this chapter to work

Optional · Putting your plan into practice

Using Bookify for this goal

This part starts with your own planning and judgement. Use the guide and its worksheets to work through it with your team.

When you are ready to put your camp plan into a booking system, you can explore a sample camp in Bookify or see what the software can help you do.