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nalex18:
--- Quote from: ""Three Springs Waygookin"" ---1) What was the ASR policy on med administration?
2) Who doled out the drugs?
3) Did ASR have a policy regarding the reduction of meds during the program?
4) Would you say med usage went up or down in general in your experience?
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RNs handed out medications and if they were not available (as when you were in Costa Rica or base camp) a counselor handed them out.
**** However, I do know for a fact that some nurses allowed students who were helping around the med office to pour meds, which is illegal****
I don't think that they had a policy, per se, but kids I knew who wanted to go off their medicine often had a difficult time doing so. I know someone who cheeked their meds and threw them away so they didn't have to take them.
I was put on several different medications while at ASR. More than I can remember. I can also tell you that I was put well above recommended dose by my doctor. He obtained some sort of go ahead from the drug company. I was told by my current med dr. that the dose he had me on had no therapeutic value
nalex18:
Just a note about the off campus medical care:
While I was there I had braces and my mom told the orthodontist specifically to maintain my teeth, not to try to move them.
Well, he went ahead and decided to mess around with my braces and I ended up with more problems when I got home. ( a gap between my front teeth, etc)
I personally had no problem with the dentist but one kid had some back teeth filed down to tiny nubs. I don't know what the purpose of it was, I'm sure his parents weren't happy though.
Anonymous:
I don't know when Nalex was at ASR, but there hasn't been a base camp for quite a while (before my son even entered the school). Also ASR no longer does Costa Rica (and hasn't since last Jan).
The system that is used for meds is a unit dose system that is prepacked in individual doses (like in the hospitals) and is prepared off campus by a pharmacy company.
Kids have "cheeked meds", usually Adderall to snort later. This happens at every facility ocassionally. As for over-medicating, we actually had the opposite experience. The psychiatrist was overly cautious, raised doses slowly, and in our case I felt the dose was subtherapeutic.
The living quarters were actually like a college dorm. In fact, each room had their own bathroom in the room. We looked at several TBS's and ASR had nice rooms (the other schools were more like camp cabins).
ASR was also the only school that had central air, in the dorms, dining room and the academic building.
ASR hired a food service (that cooks for other facilities) and the food is pretty good. In addition to the menu, there is usually a salad bar and deli bar. Drinks are available 24/7 at dispensers like the fast foods. My son ate much heathier at school than at home.
On weekends they could get soda and candy with the school store money ($2/week).
The kids used to do their own laundrey, but as of spring ASR hired a laundry service, and kids no longer do laundry.
Housekeeping in the dorms and common areas are done by the students.
Gardeners mow the lawn and tend the grounds.
Students do work in the kitchen (dishes...) as a negative consequence. My son actually prefered the chores than having to write "reflection" assignments when he broke rules.
If one didn't know that it was a therapeutic boarding school, the physical facility looked like a regular campus. No gates, fences...
I am not meaning to sound like a brochure for a hotel I am just answering the questions posted. I can only compare it to the other programs (out west) that we looked at.
nalex18:
--- Quote from: ""guest parent"" ---I don't know when Nalex was at ASR, but there hasn't been a base camp for quite a while (before my son even entered the school). Also ASR no longer does Costa Rica (and hasn't since last Jan).
The system that is used for meds is a unit dose system that is prepacked in individual doses (like in the hospitals) and is prepared off campus by a pharmacy company.
Kids have "cheeked meds", usually Adderall to snort later. This happens at every facility ocassionally. As for over-medicating, we actually had the opposite experience. The psychiatrist was overly cautious, raised doses slowly, and in our case I felt the dose was subtherapeutic.
The living quarters were actually like a college dorm. In fact, each room had their own bathroom in the room. We looked at several TBS's and ASR had nice rooms (the other schools were more like camp cabins).
ASR was also the only school that had central air, in the dorms, dining room and the academic building.
ASR hired a food service (that cooks for other facilities) and the food is pretty good. In addition to the menu, there is usually a salad bar and deli bar. Drinks are available 24/7 at dispensers like the fast foods. My son ate much heathier at school than at home.
On weekends they could get soda and candy with the school store money ($2/week).
The kids used to do their own laundrey, but as of spring ASR hired a laundry service, and kids no longer do laundry.
Housekeeping in the dorms and common areas are done by the students.
Gardeners mow the lawn and tend the grounds.
Students do work in the kitchen (dishes...) as a negative consequence. My son actually prefered the chores than having to write "reflection" assignments when he broke rules.
If one didn't know that it was a therapeutic boarding school, the physical facility looked like a regular campus. No gates, fences...
I am not meaning to sound like a brochure for a hotel I am just answering the questions posted. I can only compare it to the other programs (out west) that we looked at.
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I went there over 3 years ago, I'm glad to see that so much had changed.
nalex18:
--- Quote from: ""Three Springs Waygookin"" ---Let's discuss Living arrangements today:
1) What were the living quarters like?
2) Where they adequetely protected from cold and heat?
3) Food what was the quality of the food served?
4) Who cooked the food, maintained the facility, and did the run of the mill house keeping/gardening chores?
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When I was there
.... The girls were switched into new dorms, while the guys continued to live in the old ski lodge rooms. The rooms were pretty comfortable. In the lodge rooms we had control over our own heat and air. Lodge rooms also had their own bathrooms, while the new girl's dorms had 1 (2 showers and a toilet) bathroom for about every about every 7-10 girls.
The food was... disgusting and I doubt nutritionally sound. Everyone pretty much lived off of dessert.
Kitchen staff cooked food. Kids did everything else as far as chores. ASR must have saved thousands on janitorial staff
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