Camp Season
Applicants may earn a tuition for a camper and salary will be contingent upon this factor.
During the regular camp season, the Nurses will:
- Screen all campers within 24 hours of arrival in camp for head lice and athlete’s foot (we hire a company to come in to do the lice checks. Our nurses responsibility is to ensure that all have been checked). Measure and record each camper’s weight. All finding of these check-ins must be recorded in each camper’s CampMinder record.
- Provide ‘health call’ after each meal for those campers and staff with health care needs. One nurse should be in the back room giving campers medications and documenting appropriately. This nurse will also oversee staff coming in to take and record their own medications. Another nurse should be in the front room to see campers and staff for health care needs.
- Provide emergency care for campers and staff. Usually, more than one nurse is on duty, including when one nurse is out-of-camp transporting a patient to a doctor’s appointment, etc.
- Respond to emergencies in camp.
- Teach campers and staff behaviors to prevent illness and injury.
- Communicate campers’ health status and care to Directors and Parents (by phone if camper spends the night in the Infirmary or visits a doctor) as soon as all treatment and information is in order. If possible, check in with Director before placing the call.
- Document all care given in camper/staff member’s CampMinder record.
- Use community health resources as needed.
- Evaluate overall health care needs, health care provided and provide feedback (verbally throughout the summer and in writing in the department report at the end of summer) to the Directors.
- Transport campers and staff to appointments and/or emergency room as necessary, or communicate with the Director to ask another adult to be the driver.
- Prepare first aid supplies for weekly AMT resupplies.
- Administer medications to campers per physician's’ guidelines.
- Pull green health form copies as needed for staff and campers if they are leaving camp property (for an OOCT, the Beach, etc.). These forms are to be given, with the first aid kit, to the adult responsible for the trip. PLease review any health needs with this trip leader.
- Review Session II Camper health forms (including checking for immunizations, insurance and power of attorney, special medical needs - including allergies), making sure of parent/guardian and doctor signatures.
- Create an updated confidential Medical Alert List of staff and campers that includes Staff, Full Season and Session II Campers. This list should include all people with significant health care concerns that can impact their camp experience. Share this list with the Director and other “need to know” staff.
- Give Chefs a complete updated list of Food Allergies that now includes Staff, Full Season Campers, and Session II Campers.
- Continue follow-up with both Staff and with Camper Families to ensure that all members of the community have a complete health record.
- File any required paperwork (ex. Reportable conditions) as needed with the State of Maine.
Post-Camp
During post-camp, the nurses will:
- Shred all green copies of healthcare information (we keep all originals!) for all those who have left camp.
- Move any treatment/discharge summaries and any other forms that might have been filed in the Infirmary to the Office to be filed in individual camper files.
- Any written medical logs, and all original copies of healthcare information must be brought to the Office for storage.
- Box up any medications and Infirmary supplies that should not be frozen so that Maintenance can store in the Non-Freeze room. Please indicate on your Inventory what is stored in the Non-Freeze room.
- The remainder of Infirmary supplies should be neatly stored on shelves in the Infirmary.
- Complete Department Report, Inventory of Medical Supplies, Inventory of Infirmary Equipment, and any other paperwork required of Heads of Departments and ALC Staff.
- Collect First Aid kits from any locations in camp not in use during Family Camp. The rest of the kits will be returned/collected at the end of Family Camp.
- Strip all Infirmary beds. Blankets should be folded and placed in blanket boxes. Sheets should be bundled in groups of 10 and left on the porch (along with any other laundry from the Infirmary - towels, etc.) for our Laundry people to pick up.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $4,000.00 - $5,000.00 per month
Experience:
- Nursing: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Registered Nurse (RN) (Required)
- RN License (Required)
Work Location: In person