Nurse / RN / LPN @ Premier Summer Camp Run by 2 Docs (meals+travel+lodging). On-Site Location

Camp Pontiac

New York, New York

You'll treat campers directly alongside physicians and other nurses.

Eligibility: General

Posted Jun 18

Unit and setting: two camp health centers approximately 500 boys and girls ranging in age from 7 to 16 from last week in June through mid-Augustcampers aged 7 to 16
License: RN or LPN license Valid nursing license in NY State preferred (employer will cover cost if out-of-state certification is required)NY nursing license
Term: Full-time, temporary Job Types: Full-time, Temporary

Do you qualify?

Education: Associate degree Associate (Required)
Experience: 1+ years as an RN, LPN or school nurse 1+ years’ as a Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or School Nurse, preferably in a pediatric care facility
Experience: 3 years nursing experience nursing: 3 years (Required)

Preferred

License: NY nursing license Valid nursing license in NY State preferred (employer will cover cost if out-of-state certification is required) Check your license
Experience: pediatric care facility experience

What it pays

Against similar roles: Below most New York travel postingsNew York travel postings that state pay run $1,550/week to $2,990/week, the middle half $2,000/week to $2,630/week, across 334 postings.

Benefits

BenefitsMeals, travel and lodging providedmeals+travel+lodging
BenefitsDown-time for relaxation and day tripsDown-time for relaxation and day trips
BenefitsEmployer covers cost of out-of-state certificationemployer will cover cost if out-of-state certification is required
Meals
Travel
Lodging
Licensure coverage

The role and schedule

Day to day: treating campers directly with physicians and nurses Work directly with physicians & other nurses in rendering treatment to campers
Day to day: giving medications Administer medications, provide allergy/growth hormone shots (if applicable)
Day to day: allergy and growth hormone shots
Start: End of June through mid-August end of June through mid-August
Details: Live on site at camp Live and work at camp
Details: About two hours from NYC and Boston Approximately two hours from both NYC and Boston
Details: Two health centers with 12 nurses and 4 MDs with two state-of-the-art health centers, 12 Nurses and 4 MDs

The workplace

Camp Pontiac

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Camp Pontiac is a premier co-ed overnight summer camp located in Copake, NY, in the Berkshire region approximately two hours from both New York City and Boston. Established in 1922, it has over a century of history as a traditional…

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Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or School Nurse to work this summer at Camp Pontiac, a premier co-ed overnight camp in the NY Berkshires owned and directed by two physicians with two state-of-the-art health centers, 12 Nurses and 4 MDs.

end of June through mid-August
Great coverage redundancy, collaboration and salary
Flexibility & freedom; engaging social experience
Down-time for relaxation and day trips

Approximately two hours from both NYC and Boston; approximately 500 boys and girls ranging in age from 7 to 16 from last week in June through mid-August. Responsibilities and requirements include:

Work directly with physicians & other nurses in rendering treatment to campers
Administer medications, provide allergy/growth hormone shots (if applicable)
1+ years’ as a Registered Nurse (RN), Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) or School Nurse, preferably in a pediatric care facility
Live and work at camp
Valid nursing license in NY State preferred (employer will cover cost if out-of-state certification is required)

If you have experience as a Registered Nurse, RN, Licensed Practical Nurse, LPN or School Nurse and would love to have an incredible summer, we look forward to seeing your application!

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary Pay: $1,300.00 per week

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Education

Associate (Required)

Experience

nursing: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote

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In New York, NY

New York, NYFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 13% above the US average

Median rent: $1,821/mo
Household income: $80,483/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in New York, NY

NeighborhoodsNurses and other young professionals commonly rent in Upper Manhattan—Washington Heights, Inwood, and Hamilton Heights—plus Astoria in Queens and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Bed-Stuy, where listed average rents run about $2,150–$3,000 versus a much higher Manhattan core. Washington Heights and Inwood sit on the Hudson with Dominican heritage, Art Deco stock, and roughly 30-minute trains to Midtown; Hamilton Heights’ A/D express from 125th Street reaches Columbus Circle in about 20 minutes. Astoria offers a livelier, still-cheaper street scene with East River access; Bay Ridge and Bayside feel more suburban; Sunset Park mixes 8th Avenue Chinatown and 5th Avenue Latin American life. If city rents still bite, Jersey City (PATH), Newark, Yonkers, Great Neck, Stamford, Bronxville, and Rye are the named 28–60 minute backups, with Hudson Valley Putnam/Dutchess towns under about 90 minutes to Grand Central.

Nurses and other young professionals commonly rent in Upper Manhattan—Washington Heights, Inwood, and Hamilton Heights—plus Astoria in Queens and Brooklyn’s Sunset Park, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, and Bed-Stuy, where listed average rents run about $2,150–$3,000 versus a much higher Manhattan core. Washington Heights and Inwood sit on the Hudson with Dominican heritage, Art Deco stock, and roughly 30-minute trains to Midtown; Hamilton Heights’ A/D express from 125th Street reaches Columbus Circle in about 20 minutes.

Astoria offers a livelier, still-cheaper street scene with East River access; Bay Ridge and Bayside feel more suburban; Sunset Park mixes 8th Avenue Chinatown and 5th Avenue Latin American life. If city rents still bite, Jersey City (PATH), Newark, Yonkers, Great Neck, Stamford, Bronxville, and Rye are the named 28–60 minute backups, with Hudson Valley Putnam/Dutchess towns under about 90 minutes to Grand Central.

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Getting aroundHospital-bound trips inside the city mostly run on the subway: the A/D express from 125th Street to Columbus Circle is about 20 minutes, Harlem’s 116th Street station is 20–25 minutes to Midtown West and about 35 minutes to Union Square, and Inwood is roughly 30 minutes to Rockefeller Center and Times Square. PATH and NJ Transit from Jersey City take 20–60 minutes depending on neighborhood and whether you feed Hoboken or Secaucus; Newark Penn, Broad Street, and Liberty stations average 20–30 minutes by rail (driving 40–45 minutes off-peak, 1–1.5+ hours in rush). Metro-North from Bronxville is about 28 minutes to Grand Central; Rye, Harrison, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck 30–40 minutes; Stamford and Norwalk about an hour; LIRR from Bayside under 30 minutes. Driving is slower and, as of January 5, 2025, congestion-priced; the Seastreak Ferry from Atlantic Highlands/Highlands reaches lower Manhattan in about 30 minutes ($720 for a 40-trip book). Locals treat the subway as the default and a car as optional inside the five boroughs.

Hospital-bound trips inside the city mostly run on the subway: the A/D express from 125th Street to Columbus Circle is about 20 minutes, Harlem’s 116th Street station is 20–25 minutes to Midtown West and about 35 minutes to Union Square, and Inwood is roughly 30 minutes to Rockefeller Center and Times Square. PATH and NJ Transit from Jersey City take 20–60 minutes depending on neighborhood and whether you feed Hoboken or Secaucus; Newark Penn, Broad Street, and Liberty stations average 20–30 minutes by rail (driving 40–45 minutes off-peak, 1–1.5+ hours in rush).

Metro-North from Bronxville is about 28 minutes to Grand Central; Rye, Harrison, Larchmont, and Mamaroneck 30–40 minutes; Stamford and Norwalk about an hour; LIRR from Bayside under 30 minutes. Driving is slower and, as of January 5, 2025, congestion-priced; the Seastreak Ferry from Atlantic Highlands/Highlands reaches lower Manhattan in about 30 minutes ($720 for a 40-trip book).

Locals treat the subway as the default and a car as optional inside the five boroughs.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: apartments.com Source 2: collegehunkshaulingjunk.com Source 3: 6sqft.com Source 4: youtube.com Source 5: apartments.com

OutdoorsCentral Park’s 843 acres—zoo, carousel, Bethesda Fountain, reservoir, Wollman Rink pickleball and ice skating, sledding on Pilgrim Hill and Cedar Hill after six-plus inches of snow—function as the city’s default backyard. Prospect Park (summer concerts and festivals, zoo, rink, carousel) sits just north of Flatbush; Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Washington Square Park, the High Line, Little Island, and Governors Island are named local favorites. Riverbank State Park (28 acres atop a treatment plant) gives Hamilton Heights Hudson views; Inwood holds one of the city’s last natural forests; Sunset Park overlooks the Statue of Liberty and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Further out: Branch Brook Park in Newark, Calf Pasture Beach and the Sheffield Island Ferry in Norwalk, and Sandy Hook National Recreation Area near Red Bank. The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden are standard day trips; summer thunderstorms make an umbrella standard kit.

Central Park’s 843 acres—zoo, carousel, Bethesda Fountain, reservoir, Wollman Rink pickleball and ice skating, sledding on Pilgrim Hill and Cedar Hill after six-plus inches of snow—function as the city’s default backyard. Prospect Park (summer concerts and festivals, zoo, rink, carousel) sits just north of Flatbush; Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Washington Square Park, the High Line, Little Island, and Governors Island are named local favorites.

Riverbank State Park (28 acres atop a treatment plant) gives Hamilton Heights Hudson views; Inwood holds one of the city’s last natural forests; Sunset Park overlooks the Statue of Liberty and Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. Further out: Branch Brook Park in Newark, Calf Pasture Beach and the Sheffield Island Ferry in Norwalk, and Sandy Hook National Recreation Area near Red Bank.

The Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden are standard day trips; summer thunderstorms make an umbrella standard kit.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: collegehunkshaulingjunk.com Source 2: apartments.com Source 3: 6sqft.com Source 4: youtube.com Source 5: facebook.com Source 6: timeout.com Source 7: travellemming.com Source 8: apartments.com

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New York is the rare U.S. city where a nurse can leave a 12-hour shift and still find bagels, Veselka’s 24-hour pierogi, or a Broadway understudy—density is the point. The tradeoff is cost and space: citywide rents run about $3,930 to over $5,000, so newcomers cluster in Washington Heights, Inwood, Hamilton Heights, Astoria, Sunset Park, Flatbush, or Bay Ridge, where $2,150–$3,000 buys pre-war walk-ups, Dominican and Caribbean streets, and 20–30 minute A/D, LIRR, or PATH rides toward Midtown hospitals. Skip the car inside the boroughs (congestion pricing started 2025); Jersey City, Newark, Bronxville, and Rye are 28–60 minute rail or Seastreak ferry backups. Central Park’s 843 acres, Prospect Park, the High Line, and Riverbank State Park are the backyard. Expect four sharp seasons, summer storms, tiny apartments, block-by-block safety, and a first-year neighborhood hop. Food, 24/7 transit, and 1,700 parks keep people; rent and noise push them out.

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