kfrancesca09

I have been at my camp for six weeks, and am loving it! I never want to leave, but I only have three weeks left. Mostly homesickness and dehydration for me. Also, a little bit of altitude sickness since we are up in the mountains (this was new to me as well). We also had lots of homeless and refugee campers here on scholarships and often did not speak English. Obviously this made communication difficult when it came to one of them being sick or injured. But I found my way around it and managed to cope! Hope you all have a great summer!

And CloudySue, you said yourself that when you were interviewed, the man stated that "it didn't much matter what education she had".

Bsyrn, the actual title is "healthcare coordinator". CloudySue, I'm not "posing" because most states do not require a license to hold this particular title. Furthermore, I highly doubt that parents send their children to summer camp based on the healthcare that they provide.

So I am spending my first summer as camp nurse at a small camp in Highlands, NC. I recently also picked up embroidery and have been doing a lot of it this past week while we are waiting for the campers to get here. I want to decorate my walls with embroidery and would like to get opinions on some things I could embroider that are 'nurse-like'. I already have in the makes: 1. Drink water 2. Eat your fruits and veggies 3. Safety first 4. Some inspirational quotes Any other fun ideas?

I just got my first job as a camp nurse, and have been here for one week. I only have an associate's degree in biology and am starting nursing school in the fall. Maybe it depends on the state (I'm in North Carolina), but the camp director said that I only needed to be pursuing a medical degree and be well versed in first aid and CPR. To be honest, I was VERY nervous about the job at first, but took it anyways because I knew it would be an incredible learning experience. Our campers do not arrive until the 17th, but we had a youth retreat here from Dallas, TX this last week and they kept me very busy. I had a nail in the foot, bee stings, vomiting, and fevers (not all from the same person, of course). I just renewed my first aid and CPR so I knew that I knew everything really well but was really afraid that, when it came down to actually administering first aid, I would panic and not be able to remember anything. That was not the case at all and even just in this past week, I have learned so much and am very eager to start my nursing career. I have gone from anxious to optimistic. Best of luck to you!

I should preface by saying, I am not a registered nurse, but am starting nursing school in the fall. I am spending the summer as the healthcare coordinator at a small camp in Highlands, North Carolina. I have been at the camp for a week, but the campers do not get here until the 17th, and counselors arrived yesterday. Just now, one of the counselors came to me and told me that after we swam in the lake today, he can now not here hardly at all out of his left ear. He said it's not echoed, but in fact, really a loss of hearing. He called his doctor and he told him that there might be some kind of earwax blockage in his ear and suggested some drops that he tried, but did not seem to help much. I'm really kind of unsure about what to do. Of course, if he still can't hear in the morning, I would more than likely have to send him to the local healthcare center. It's been about five hours that he couldn't hear. I told him to sleep on that side so that anything may be able to drain out of his ear, and gave him some swimmer's ear drops (which I don't think will really help). Anyone have any idea what this may be?