To operate the onsite Medical Clinic, maintain camper medical records, administer and organize camper medications, and to provide care as needed within the scope of a Registered Nurse to children attending Camp Oty’Okwa, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio’s residential summer camp program in the Hocking Hills.
Core Duties and Responsibilities
• Have medical cabin ready to operate prior to the beginning of Pre-Camp Training.
• As able, teach all staff members emergency First-Aid and other emergency medical treatment deemed important and necessary.
• Participate in all phases of Pre-Camp Training.
• Medical responsibilities to campers and staff:
• See that all staff members come to camp with complete health forms.
• Provide emergency medical treatment to campers and staff when necessary.
• Provide medical treatment to campers and staff on a routine basis.
• Keep and administer all medications for campers.
• Responsible for seeing medication for campers is returned to their parents at end of each session.
• Responsible for keeping first-aid kits stocked and seeing to it they are taken on hikes and returned.
• Make Counselors aware of any medical problem a camper may be having.
• Obtain doctor’s appointments for those campers requiring medical attention.
• Keep satisfactory records of any person given treatment.
• Responsible for seeing that insurance forms for camper insurance are properly filled out and administered to.
• Be responsible for keeping and assigning blankets and sleeping bags to campers when necessary. Maintain Lost and Found for children.
• Assist Camp Coordinator during cabin inspections and all camp inspections.
• Responsible for seeing that Medical Facility is clean and presentable at all times.
• Responsible for seeing that all medical supplies for end of summer camping by rental groups are available.
• Keep running inventory and advise Camp Program Director of any needed medical supplies.
• Inventory all medical supplies at end of summer.
• Make a medical follow up list to be given to Camp Director at end of summer.
• Attend all administrative meetings.
• Attend all meals.
• Report all serious injuries to Camp Director.
Registered Nurse through accredited nursing program.