Health center hours

I work in PA and have about the same size camp. Our healthcenter hours are 8 to 10. We always have two nurses on. We either work from 8 to 3 or 3 to 10 and we only get one day off a week. We have 5 total RN's so we take about one night of call a week. It seems to work really well for us!
Monica,RN

I work at about the same size camp. We have 2 RN's, and can take the afternoon or evening off occasionally but it only leaves one nurse in the infirmary. We are on call at night too, but only get disturbed one or two nights a week. We are "open" for routine things from 7:30am to 10:00pm, but one of us has to get up at 6:15am to give water sport kids their am meds, then the other RN stays up late to give the HS meds.

At another same size camp I work at, we only have 2 RN's, but are responsible for waking kids (extreme sports camp)up with head injuries q 2 hrs at night. But most of the nurses only work one week then go home (exhausted!) and we take turns waking kids up. Not to mention the occasionaly N&V kids.... Infirmary hours are from 7:45 am to 10:30pm. but we both sleep in the infirmary.

A few years ago, I worked as a Health Officer at a scout reservation that sees up to 1,000 campers with around 90 or so staff. The health lodge is open 24/7, and is preferably staffed by at least two health officers with at least a Med First Responder license (which is what I had) or preferably at least an EMT-B, though occasionally I was the only Health Officer on reservation. I was also the only full-time Health Officer and as a result got very little time off to myself.

Med administration is decentralized, with unit leaders keeping the medications for all scouts in the unit in a locked container and keeping track of medications on a provided MAR. Health Officers use SMOs to offer out-of-hospital care, with more severe issues referred either to the camp physician's office in town or to the local ED.

Besides dealing with medical and trauma emergencies, Health Officers are expected to coordinate all other emergency responses on the reservation.

In short, you all have it very nice.