Situational and PRN medications
Not every medication is a scheduled prescription. Alongside those, Campfront handles two kinds of as-needed medication: over-the-counter (OTC) medications your camp keeps on hand, and as-needed (PRN) prescriptions that are given when symptoms appear rather than on a fixed schedule. This article covers how both are set up, approved, and recorded, and why an over-the-counter medication sometimes isn't selectable for a camper.
Your camp's OTC medication list
The OTC medications page, under Medical settings, holds the over-the-counter medications your camp stocks, grouped by category like pain and fever, gastrointestinal, cold and flu, skin, sleep aid, topical, and other. Campfront seeds a sensible default list you can shape to match what's in your cabinet.
Add an OTC medication with a name and category
Hide one you don't stock, which drops it off new medical forms while past administration records stay on file
Show a hidden medication again at any time
Reset medications to restore the original default list
Each medication shows a Visible or Hidden badge, so you can see at a glance what's on offer.
Getting parent permission for a camper
Before you can give a camper an over-the-counter medication, a parent has to grant permission and choose which ones. That happens in the medicine approval section of the camper's medical record. The parent confirms permission for over-the-counter medicine, picks the specific medications they approve, and can add notes. When you go to record an OTC dose for that camper, you'll only see the medications the parent approved.
Staff are adults, so any active OTC medication on the camp list is available for them without this step.
If an over-the-counter medication you expect isn't selectable for a camper, check their medicine approval. The parent may not have granted permission, or may not have approved that specific medication.
As-needed (PRN) prescriptions
A prescription set to an as-needed frequency doesn't get fixed daily doses. Instead it shows up on the As needed tab of Upcoming administrations, ready to record whenever it's given. Each time you mark an as-needed dose as administered, Campfront opens the next one, so there's always a slot ready for the next time it's needed. Because there's no schedule to miss, these doses only offer Mark as administered.
Recording an as-needed or OTC dose
Record these the same way you record any off-schedule dose, either from Past administrations with Add administration, or as part of a Medical log entry. Pick the patient, choose the type, and record the route, dosage, time, and reason.
The type is one of an approved prescription, an approved over-the-counter medication, or Other for anything else. If a camper has no approved prescriptions or no approved over-the-counter medications, use Other instead.