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I get paid every two weeks. Although I work at a school that operates camp programs in the summer, so it's their standard pay cycle. I've worked at camps that pay at the end of a session or season, however, they've also used direct deposit, so I wasn...

I just accepted a Public Health Nursing position in Maine. I will be making the move from the Midwest. Does anyone have any suggestions or advise for me in making Maine my new home?

I'd also recommend a wilderness first aid course rather than just a basic first aid course depending on your camps location and what level of training the counseling staff have.

We buy enough to stock all of our med kits with an auto injector and then supplement with ampules for secondary doses just in case. It's crazy expensive (we send out 20+ trips every summer plus our stock at camp) Our local pharmacy provides them clos...

Last day of camp for me was yesterday! How has everyone's summer been? Every summer I'm amazed at how much happened and how quickly the summer flew by.

Opening Day is 3 weeks from tomorrow for us! Feeling so underprepared after being short staffed during the rest of the year with our other programs. When do all of you start?

When I worked in public health we would give mantoux as ordered by our overseeing physician to individuals that met a certain criteria (high risk). We had to take and pass a test certifying how to administer and read it prior to any administration. O...

We have standing orders for common issues that kids have while at camp. We then require parents to also sign off on the list indicating any medication they do not want their child to receive. Any medication (other, vitamin, supplement, etc) not on th...

We hire per diem staff per day at a rate of $150/day. Less than 4 hours is a half day greater than 4 hours is a full day.

All of our HS meds are dispensed from the health center. "Minutes" are called 10 minutes prior to lights out for our younger campers. These last 10 minutes before bed are when kids are supposed to come and get meds, brush teeth, etc. The older kids c...

I have those skills, it's just a matter of finding the time to be able to implement it the way I want to. I'm moving towards a Google form as a sign in which then goes to a master sheet where I can pull out a list of all the trainings a specific pers...

The biggest change we NEED to make is unfortunately one we can't make. The location of our health center is in the lower level of the same building our dining hall is in which means we have noisy foot traffic all day long (not a very restful place fo...

I'm a year round RN at a semester school/camp in Maine. I've been here for a year, but I've been working at camps for several summers. I'm looking for additional nurses for the summer (June-Aug) and have a full time opening. PM me with questions!

I took over as supervising nurse of a health center in Maine, I'm currently hiring for a full time nurse. I'll be hiring for an additional 3 nurses over summer (for a total of 4 besides myself), but don't have my summer job posting up yet. It's never...

I went to camp as the Camp Nurse the summer after I graduated with my degree for the entire summer. Sessions were a week long at most and had between 60-120 kids per session. The camp was fairly healthy. I was the only "health person" at camp with th...

Wow! 20 growth hormone kids? We have a handful, last summer we had 4 our second session - I thought that was a lot! They trickle in with the rest of the bedtime meds. We usually (but not always) have 2 nurses on for bedtime meds just because these ta...

I have a health center team of 4-5 nurses in the summer. We administer meds just before each meal and have "clinic hours" right after each meal this may last up to an hour depending on how many kids and what we are dealing with. We then give bed time...

I'm a relatively new nurse at a boys camp in Maine. We have both residential camp as well as wilderness trips that are out for extended periods of time. In the "off season" we are a semester school and run shorter programs for local schools (outdoor ...

Thanks for the replies. It's a lot to think about and I've really only just started the process of trying to figure out what exactly we want/need with all of the different programs and how the database we have works and what exactly it is capable of....

Wint & androrn - looks like we've got a small group of us in Maine. I'm working at a camp in Wiscasset. It's a boys residential camp with boys, girls, or co-ed wildreness trip opportunities.

WI_home_RN - what camp? I am from WI and worked at a camp up there.

It's a bit hard to critique a resume in a forum. I generally recommend (especially if you are just out of college) listing things on your resume in the following order: Education, Certifications (these should be listed separately from your formal edu...

After three summers as a seasonal camp nurse at three different camps followed by a couple of summers off, I've found a full time year round "camp home". Officially accepted the offer yesterday and am ridiculously excited! Should be starting in about...

One of the camps I've worked for did have a nursing student as one of the full time nurses in the health center, they had him do a training on medication administration so he was able to pass meds, however, he was also an EMT so he had a lot of addit...

When I moved from WI to ME (both compact states) I had to give up my Wisconsin license. You'll have 30 days to transfer your license and it should be a fairly similar process when moving back. I think that say if your moving for more than a year your...