Medication Safety at Summer Camps

As the school year is winding down, children across the nation are getting ready to attend summer camps. Many of them will need prescription and over-the-counter medications while they’re at camp, away from their parents and primary care providers. If camps aren’t ready to manage the responsibilities of storing and managing those meds, their campers could be at risk. In this episode, Randi Trope, D.O., Vice Chair of Pediatric Quality & Safety, Stony Brook Children's Hospital in New York and a member of the advisory board for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), and Jen Young, PharmD, BCPS, CSP, a pharmacist and medication safety specialist at ISMP, describe safety tips for camp operators, pharmacists, and families.

To see more camp safety guidance from ISMP, see https://www.consumermedsafety.org; learn more about ISMP’s medication safety work at www.ISMP.org.