Easter Seal Case Study

The atmosphere at Easter Seals required a great deal of communication between all the volunteers and staff. The communication at camp is necessary to ensure safety and fun while the children are at camp for the weekend. I saw a great deal of communication between the directors, nurses, consolers, and cooking staff. There were times that there had to be a large amount of communication between all the staff but, I was also able to see the communication that occurred within one field when a problem arose. Interprofessional communication had to occur constantly during camp. This constant need for communication was achieved by having walkie talkies around camp to use that were all linked together. One time where a multitude of staff had to work together was when a camper got into food that he had listed as an allergy in his file. What first occurred was his counselors saw him eat a crouton when they knew he had an allergy to gluten. Next, they shouted to the cook asking if …show more content…
While I was on nurse’s duty, a counselor told the nurses that their camper had been drinking all day and had yet to void. We, as the nursing staff, were given the information that he had drank a normal amount of fluid, had the urge to go, but was unable to go since the night prior. The nurses came together to give the counselor some advice on how to fix the situation. We collaborated and suggested different techniques s to try such as warm water or letting the sink run. After the counselor left the nurses and I talked about what could be going wrong. With this, we looked up his medication to see if there was something that we could give him to help him out. After a few hours past and the camper was still unable to void. The nurses and I discussed straight catheterization which we all decided was quite invasive and that the camper should try to wait it