Nurse Consultant

JOB SUMMARY

 

Camp Hapitok is a residential summer camp for 6 to 11 year old children with communication disorders who live in San Luis Obispo County. The Nurse Consultant will consult with Health Interns regarding administration of medications and health needs for campers. The Nurse Consultant will be on the camp premises one hour per day and be on call for a maximum of 10 hours per week. Perform other related duties as assigned. 

 

 

Required:
1. LVN or RN license.

Desirable:
1. Experience with elementary through high school age children and/or communicatively handicapped populations.

 

1. Provide health care and administer prescribed medications.
2. Provide first aid and life saving techniques to campers and teens.
3. Recognize the first aid and health needs of students and suggest appropriate solutions.
4. Respond appropriately in emergency situations.
5. Read and comprehend medical terms related to students at the camp.
6. Remain calm in stressful situations.
7. Understand, manage and relate to students who have behavioral problems and/or learning disabilities.
8. Adapt to students.
9. Work with interruptions.
10. Work harmoniously with student, staff, and teens.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

 

1. Provide basic health care and administer prescribed medication to campers and teens.
2. Provide first aid and life saving techniques to students in emergency situations without direct nursing supervision.
3. Recognize the first aid and health needs of students and suggest appropriate solutions.
4. Work with sensitivity toward the camper’s speech and/or language needs.

 

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

 

1. With or without the use of aids, sufficient strength to lift non-ambulatory student, lift and move adaptive equipment, physically restrain and control a student up to 150 pounds with assistance.
2. Sufficient body movement and ability to demonstrate gross motor activities, climb in and out of cars, vans, and buses, to walk and run with students, to climb well enough to go up and down stairs, and to maneuver students into and out of vehicles.
3. Mental acuity to perform the essential functions of this position in an accurate, neat, and timely fashion; to make good judgments and decisions; and to evaluate the results of decisions and judgments.
4. Facility to see and read and distinguish colors, with or without vision aids, medical materials, student files and records, laws and rules and other printed matter.
5. Facility to hear and understand speech at normal room levels, and to hear and understand speech on the telephone
6. Manual dexterity to operate a telephone and to utilize medical equipment using both hands.
7. Facility to speak in audible tones so that others may clearly understand instructions in presentations, explanations and directions in normal conversations, in training sessions, on the playground, in other meetings and on the telephone.
8. Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and up to 50 pounds to waist height; and to bend, to stoop, to climb stairs, to walk on uneven terrain and to reach overhead.
9. Facility to drive a car.

 

 

1. Collaborate with other staff.
2. Report to camp director.