Help with camp nurse...

Hey,

I graduate in months and will be an RN. I decided to work my last summer at a camp, but not as a nurse. I am a counselor and a riding instructor. We have several nurses that coem in the summer the first 2 were great I loved them the kids loved them and the other staff loved them. For the past week we have had a new nurse that is just not stepping up to the plate.

It is a horse back riding camp, so obviously kids can fall off and get hurt. When the kids are riding the nurse is surposed to be at the rings watching unless there is another issue that she has to attend too. all of the instructors carry walkie talkies to communicate to the barn and the nurse. This nurse will constantly be not at the rings and leave the walkie talkie in her room. When she does have it on her and we call her ASAP to the ring she walks down like she is out for a sunday stroll.

she is surposed to be at meals and do night rounds but she is at neither. there are only 35-55 kids at this camp so it is not like it is hard to get through all the rooms we sleep all in the same building.

When the kids go ask her for stuff she makes it seem like they are a pain in the but. It has coem to the point that one of the staff try to go with all the campers when they see the nurse if we can. I had a kid in my lesson fall off and the first thing she said to me was "I dont' wanna see that evil nurse"

she refuses to try and learn the staff's names and there aren't that many of us, and makes comments on everything we do. We found out the other day that she doesn't lock the med cabinet and there are narcotics it there.

I can't stand this nurse, all the others I could learn something from but all I wanna learn from this one is the kind of nurse that I would not like to be.

But that does not help the kids for the next 4 weeks.

any ideas?


thanx SR