Summer Camp Pediatric Nursing Internship

Why Work at Beyond Akeela

As much as Beyond Akeela is about its campers, we place a tremendous emphasis on building a sense of community for everyone at camp. You’ll walk away with a community of staff who you’ve networked with professionally and built amazing friendships with socially. You’ll feel a new sense of pride because you helped create a community for your campers. Camp jobs offer invaluable skill-building, leadership, training, and enrichment opportunities found nowhere else. Regardless of your college major, camp experiences allow you to learn and develop skills that will enhance your job marketability. All the while you'll be having a FUN summer, outside of a classroom or office environment.

About Beyond Akeela

Beyond Akeela is a residential summer program that provides neurodivergent teens structured and scaffolded opportunities to practice the social-emotional, executive functioning, and independent living skills needed to thrive in college. Most Beyond Akeela teens have Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, or a similar social communication disorder. Beyond Akeela teens gain experience managing the social nuances of dorm living, navigating a college campus, and organizing their daily schedule. They do this all with coaching and mentorship from an experienced group of young professionals. Daily activities include but are not limited to community service opportunities, traditional camp activities, dedicated exercise time, college workshops & visits, and exciting day trips. All the while, Beyond Akeela empowers teens to step out of their comfort zone, develop meaningful peer connections, and advocate for themselves. We create transformative summer experiences for over 100 teens each summer, with a staff team of 25.

About this Job

The Beyond Akeela Nurse Intern works alongside the Beyond Akeela Nurse (RN) to oversee the health and well being of the Beyond Akeela. Under the direction of the Beyond Akeela Nurse, they will build their skills in medication administration, triaging a variety of health situations, logging treatment, and communicating health related concerns with family members. They will work with the Nurse to make recommendations to the Directors on adjustments to camp operations that will improve the global health of the camp community, as needed.

The Nurse Intern and Nurse work under the standing orders and guidance of Beyond Akeela’s Health Care Consultant, who is a licensed Nurse Practitioner, to make decisions on treatment plans for each camper. They are also responsible for checking in on the health of staff members, and helping the Directors ensure that staff are physically and mentally prepared to work.

Under the direction of the Camp Nurse, Nurse Interns will:

• …administer camper medication, both prescription and over-the-counter.
• …triage camper and staff injuries, illnesses, and other health concerns.
• …create and manage camper healthcare plans to monitor recovery progress.
• …build strong rapport with campers and staff in the community in effort to make the health center a welcoming environment for all.
• …be familiar with and support the successful execution of all camp policies and procedures, including safety and emergency plans.

We're Looking for Candidates who:

• …are pursuing a BSN degree and have some clinical rotation experience, OR have experience as a CNA.
• …have a BLS certification and some experience assessing a variety of medical situations.
• …have experience in fast paced work settings that require significant amounts of time on their feet.
• …are compassionate, enthusiastic, patient, hardworking, empathetic, and intuitive.
• …show the ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• …have the ability to live and work in a stimulating and high stress work environment with irregular hours including early mornings and evenings.
• …are willing and able to live on site at Curry College in the Beyond Akeela dorm building with the understanding that housing and meals are provided for the duration of the term (All staff live in single rooms and share communal dorm bathrooms).

Internship Supervision:

• Staff members at Beyond Akeela receive consistent training, coaching, and feedback from a leadership team of professionals and experts in the field of youth development.
• Supervisors for the Nurse Intern include a licensed registered nurse and psychiatric nurse practitioner. All have pediatric experience in a camp and hospital settings, and have experience working with neurodivergent youth.
• Staff members will have two formal coaching sessions with their direct supervisor and receive daily informal coaching from all supervisors with whom they work.