Summer Camp Nurse Position Near Yosemite - 2 Week Positions Available

Skylake Yosemite Camp is located in the Sierra National Forest, in Central California on Bass Lake.  Located just 30 minutes from the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park, we are 4 hours from San Francisco, and 5 hours from Los Angeles.

Two Week Positions Available:

June 13 - June 27

July 11 - July 25

July 25 - August 8

The Nurse has primary responsibility to provide on site health care to the campers and to maintain and manage the health center for a two-week session.  Skylake also employs between 1-2 nurse’s assistants to assist the nurse with day to day needs in the health center.  The Nurse reports directly to the Director. 

Skylake has provided a co-ed traditional summer camp experience since 1945, hires 60 counselors, 7 leadership staff, 6 trips staff, and 15 kitchen staff every summer.  Each session, Skylake has roughly 210 campers who stay for either 2 or 4 weeks.  Activities range from waterfront activities on private docks such as SUP, canoeing, and waterskiing to many land activities such as horseback riding, mountain bikes, ropes course, arts and crafts, and sports to name a few.

Everyday Skylake strives for campers and staff to benefit and grow within an inclusive community while sharing an outdoor living experience together. The activity structure, cabin structure, meal structure and small group focus at Skylake are all geared towards the development of mental, social, emotional and physical health of every staff member and camper Skylake is motivated by the goal that every individual shall leave camp stronger and more confident. 

Skylake is seeks highly motivated, responsible and caring nurses to oversee the health and wellbeing of our camp community under the guidance and with the support of Skylake's Directors.  

Desired Qualifications for Camp Nurse:

• Current RN or NP

• Experience with children and young adults desirable

• Ability to manage the needs of several campers and prioritize needs with the help of a Nurse’s Assistant, maintain records, update parents and Directors, and implement the camp’s health care plan

• Ability to work well with others

• Good character, integrity, and adaptability

• Enthusiasm, sense of humor, good judgment, and patience

• Must be available to travel and live on site for a two week summer camp session. Workweek is 6 days on, 1 day off.

The primary responsibilities of the camp nurse include:

1. Review of all health files prior to campers arriving in camp to determine health plan for any campers with special needs.

2. Take possession of all medications from campers and maintain under lock except when under direct supervision of nurse.  

3. Follow established system of providing of prescription medications to campers only as specifically authorized by licensed physician.

4. Take possession of all non prescriptive drugs and dispense according to either parents or physicians instructions or pursuant to generally accepted conservative application.

5. Perform an initial entrance examination of all campers upon arrival in camp to include verification of health history information and to check for observable evidence of illness, injury or communicable diseases.

6. Provide First Aid, Medical Assessment and Care to injuries and illnesses presented in camp and refer to outside Medical Care and/or assess necessity to call 911 if an emergency medical incident occurs.  

7. To be “on call” by camp radio at all times you are absent from the Health Hut.

8. Communicate with parents of all campers who have either visited the Dr., experienced a significant medical situation, or have spent the night in the Health Hut.

9. Maintain proper, and separate, health logs as established by the American Camp Association for both staff and campers. Minimum information to be recorded include date, time, name, injury description, treatment rendered and initials of treating individual.

10. Maintain a clean and hygienic health center.

11. Supervise any nurse assistants. 

12. Assure that whenever a camper is in the health center for medical reasons that a trained adult is always present.