Help with camp nurse...

[Still Riding]

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

[nurse_nightingale]

Hi,

I worked as a camp student nurse last summer. Because I was a student, I worked with another RN. She is just like how you described your nurse at the camp to be. Sometimes, it is personality of the person. Some people just don't like kids and that type of nursing. However, they just accept the job for other reasons. My nurse was a friend of the director of the camp so she just got hired and she wanted to sent her two kids for free. So, there you go. During mid-evaluation, everyone sort of said that they didn't feel welcomed in the officed or found her to be sensitive to the kids. After that, she did change a little bit. Maybe, you need to talk to her or if there is an evaluation you can express your thoughts on it. If there is no evaluation, this is something that you can work on. The nurse might be going through her own problems and she is letting that get involved with work. The way I look at it is, if you want to work somewhere, make sure you like it because you are gonna be miserable and make others miserable. You should never take a job for the wrong reasons. I hope this helps. Good luck. Let me know how it goes.

Nurse_Nightingale

[Still Riding]

thanx for the advice. this woman is horrid. she talks to the kids about how the staff dont' like her and she tries to bribe them with things to ge tthem on her side.

she is only here for 3 more days I can't wait till she leaves I hope the next one will be great like the first 2 where.