medanthroNP

Hi, The School Nurse supply company has a cute poster with an owl as a nurse and it states, Owl take care of you! The girls loves the name "owl" and liked seeing the poster of the owl nurse.

Hi, I have spent four years as a camp nurse, two years at each of two camps before I accepted the position at Skylark. It is a great camp, with wonderful gilrs but the nursing experience was different from previous years. There is an excpetional amount of heavy lifting and I was greeted with 20 sleeping bags, five 32 gallon bags of clothes, to wash before being asked to use a professional size mop on the Health Center. I could have done this in my youth, but I had difficulties withthe unusal amout of laundry and cleaning. The nurse gets to sleep in a building with heat, but the campers and counselors are in tents and you do need to deal with cold campers. I would have up to sixs campers come to visit me in the middle of the night, complaining of the cold. I just gave them warm tea and when I could find one, a thermos full of warm tea. I hope that this helps.

Hello, I have been a camp nurse for four plus years, two years at each camp until this summer. I was at the Skylark summer position, but it was very different from previous experiences. I think that this position would be great for a very new graduate who is content to depend on the decision making of the director of the camp. There is an unusal amount of lifting for a summer camp nurse position: On the first day of camp I was handed about 20 sleeping bags to wash, about 5 32 gallon bags of clothes to wash, and then asked to use a professional size mop to mop the Health Center and this continued to be a large part of the job (that I could have done in my younger years, but I found it much to swing the professional size mop). This said, the kids are wonderful and I loved getting the little notes and cards to thank me for my efforts. Again, the kids are great and the need for a nurse is real. The camp has previously used EMTs, with a greater dependence upon the director's decisions and this could be a great opportunity for a new nurse graduate. The activities are horse back riding, high ropes, beach activities, and other Girl Scout activities.