This article describes what a hospital room in a camp should contain and what needs to be taken into account.
Criteria
- Warm, dry location
- No isolation from camp activities
- Short distance to sanitary facilities
- Sufficient water in the area
- Sufficient spare blankets
- Bell or whistle to call forassistance
Nutrition/well-being
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Administer light food
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Several snacks between meals
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Providesufficient hot drinks nearby
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Air beds/rooms frequently
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Provideopportunities to play and read
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Provide plastic buckets for vomiting
Camp paramedic
- Keeps a medical record of every sick person. He is the only person authorized to dispense medication
- Records the course of the illness on the sick note (diagnostic aid for the doctor)
- Regularly taking the patient's temperature and pulse
Call in outside help
- If unsure, consult a specialist (camp doctor, family doctor)
- Always call a doctor if you have
- Fever aboveabove 39°C
- Loss of consciousness
- ill for more than three days
- three or more patients with the same symptoms
Information for parents
- All accidents and illnessesthat require medical treatment must bereported
- Important decisions should be made together with the parents (e.g. can the child have an operation?)
- Under time pressure, make decisions as parents would normally do; inform the parents as quickly as possible
- Informin a considered manner: Avoid frightening the parents
- Whenever possible, have injured persons call home in your presence
- In more serious cases, enlist the help of a trusted person to inform the parents
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