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Registered Nurse
Nurses: Join us at Sonlight for a great summer. Practice your profession in an outdoor setting, work with kids, and make a difference. The RN position at Sonlight involves working with an essentially well population of kids and young adults. Managing their medications, assisting kids with daily health routines and providing band aids and TLC. Working with the healthcare supervisor, an RN, with extensive camp healthcare experience you'll have a great resource at hand. New grads are welcome to apply.
Time Frame: May 30 - August 9
Compensation: $200/week, plus room and board, workers compensation and laundry
Responsible To: Health care supervisor and Camp Director Minimum Qualifications * Current Colorado Registered Nurse license
* Experience with children and young adults desirable
* Ability to originate, update, and/or monitor healthcare, maintain records, implement the health plan
* Desire to work and live in a camp community
Regarding Colorado Licensure: Colorado has joined the Nurse Licensure Compact. Twenty-two states belong to the NLC. They are: Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin. If you are licensed in any one of these states, you may practice in another of these states without an additional license.
General Responsibility: To be the camp nurse; to provide first aid care for campers and staff, overseeing the administration of medications to campers and staff, coordinating visits to a physician when needed, monitoring health and cleanliness standards; work with camp director and staff, and help provide adequate physical health conditions for all. Specific Responsibilities:
- Ensure each staff member and camper has on file a health history and examination form, as required.
- Set up system for health screening for arriving campers/staff, to include screening for wilderness trip camps.
- Conduct inventory of supplies and place orders when necessary, ensuring timely arrival of supplies
- Establish and follow appropriate medical routines, including record keeping in daily medical log, disposal of medical waste, managing and safeguarding medications, and utilizing approved standing orders.
- Be on the camp property or coordinate with a certified person to be on camp property at all times when campers are on camp property.
- Make appointments, when necessary, with medical/dental personnel in community.
- Check and issue first aid kits.
- Participate in and lead specific areas of staff training pertaining to camp health and safety, CPR, first aid, and use of universal precautions for infection control
- Keep accident/incident reports that can be used for risk-management assessment.
- Prepare a summary and evaluation of the camp season including inventories, staff evaluations, camper reports on health problems, and make recommendations for the following season.
- Monitor health of all staff including kitchen staff.
- Monitor/evaluate camp procedures, facilities, and conditions and suggest modifications that would create more healthful conditions at camp.
- These are not the only duties to be performed. Some duties may be reassigned and other duties may be assigned as required.
Essential Functions
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