Summer of 2006

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Anyone starting to look for summer assignments????

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Ooops Sorry I forgot to post more....

I am returning for my third summer to my camp in Illinois. :p

I absolutely love my campers and staff. I can't think of a better way to spend my summer. I stay in contact with quite a few campers and staff throughout the off season. Even visited some of my staff in England for a beautiful holiday!

My camp offers a nurse salary starting at $900 a week which includes private lodging, meals and full camp tuition for your kids!!!! From what I heard...this salary is pretty good. But nurses don't go to camp for the money:chuckle

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Wow...I am jealous of the paid job ! I have accepted a one week camp nurse position at a camp in N.Carolina. I only wanted to be at this one camp and didn't look anywhere else, so I am fine with not getting paid. My daughter will go for free and we will tie in a family vacation before camp starts.

I am SOOO excited !

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Ooops Sorry I forgot to post more....

I am returning for my third summer to my camp in Illinois. :p

I absolutely love my campers and staff. I can't think of a better way to spend my summer. I stay in contact with quite a few campers and staff throughout the off season. Even visited some of my staff in England for a beautiful holiday!

My camp offers a nurse salary starting at $900 a week which includes private lodging, meals and full camp tuition for your kids!!!! From what I heard...this salary is pretty good. But nurses don't go to camp for the money:chuckle

Can you share that camp with me? I live in Missouri but also have an Illinois liscense and my 2 younger children are 6 & 9 years old. Where is it in Illinois? This sounds like something I would like to do. Do you have to sign up for the entire summer or can you sign up for shorter sessions? What are they looking for? I am a pediatric RN also with urgent care experience.

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How does it work if you are married? My husband may be interested in being a counselor and I would love to be a camp nurse- my later in life goal is to be a school nurse, I just love working with kids... what a neat opportunity.

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Well, if your husband wants to be a counselor, you'd probably have to spend the summer living apart, for one thing. (Sometimes the "group heads" don't actually live with the kids, in which case you might be able to live together, but those jobs require quite a bit of experience.) But you'd still see each other every day, and the directors would surely let you arrange all or most of your time off together.

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I'm looking. It's something I've always wanted to do, and since I'm thinking of leaving the hospital at the begining of June when my contract is up, it may be a good time for me to do it. I am fortunate to live within a few hours of MANY camps. My problem is this, I have a four year old son. I saw that one nurse brought her younger kids with a mother's helper that she paid and the camp provided room/board for her mother's helper. Is this something that would be reasonable to propose to a camp director? I emailed a few camps about their nursing positions and had 4 responses within a few hours. This makes me think they need nurses badly and may be willing to be flexible.

Thanks,

Sue

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I'm looking. It's something I've always wanted to do, and since I'm thinking of leaving the hospital at the begining of June when my contract is up, it may be a good time for me to do it. I am fortunate to live within a few hours of MANY camps. My problem is this, I have a four year old son. I saw that one nurse brought her younger kids with a mother's helper that she paid and the camp provided room/board for her mother's helper. Is this something that would be reasonable to propose to a camp director? I emailed a few camps about their nursing positions and had 4 responses within a few hours. This makes me think they need nurses badly and may be willing to be flexible.

Thanks,

Sue

First of all, I would be leary of a camp that still has unfilled positions this late in the game. Secondly, I have yet to be a camp nurse, but everything I've read says it is a demanding job and you will be busy almost 24/7. I would wait until your DS is older and can actually join in the camp activities as a camper.

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Goodness, this isn't at all late for a camp to have unfilled positions! Many perfectly good camps don't start looking seriously at new staff applications until February or March.

Yes, camps do have a difficult time filling nurse positions, because so few nurses have the freedom to spend their summers away from home.

I've heard of many people who have been successful taking a young child to camp with them, but I agree that it'd probably work better when your son is older. But yes, I think most camp directors would agree to provide room & board for a mother's helper (they'd barely notice the person was there, budget-wise). Your helper would have to agree to abide by all camp rules, though--including the dress code--and depending on the camp, might have to be at least as old as the youngest counselors.

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Goodness, this isn't at all late for a camp to have unfilled positions! Many perfectly good camps don't start looking seriously at new staff applications until February or March.

Yes, camps do have a difficult time filling nurse positions, because so few nurses have the freedom to spend their summers away from home.

I've heard of many people who have been successful taking a young child to camp with them, but I agree that it'd probably work better when your son is older. But yes, I think most camp directors would agree to provide room & board for a mother's helper (they'd barely notice the person was there, budget-wise). Your helper would have to agree to abide by all camp rules, though--including the dress code--and depending on the camp, might have to be at least as old as the youngest counselors.

I guess I was basing that just on my experience with the one camp I applied at. There were only two spots out of the whole summer that weren't already filled by returning nurses eager to get back there with their daughters.

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My pay is great - it is about $7,000 for the summer. It includes my room, food, and my two kids can go for free for the whole summer excluding adult camper weeks and training weeks.

When you figure it out hourly though, and how many hours I spend actually working, it is not good.

The experience in itself is fantastic! Unless you have ever done camp nursing, you cannot truly understand the relationships made and gratification you get from the experience.

Just 6 weeks away for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My pay is great - it is about $7,000 for the summer. It includes my room, food, and my two kids can go for free for the whole summer excluding adult camper weeks and training weeks.

When you figure it out hourly though, and how many hours I spend actually working, it is not good.

The experience in itself is fantastic! Unless you have ever done camp nursing, you cannot truly understand the relationships made and gratification you get from the experience.

Just 6 weeks away for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so jealous! I wish I could be a Camp Nurse this year! My pay was nothing like yours will be, lucky you!

Have fun and let us in on all the fun stories.

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