Comments on: Are You Ready for Camp? Camp Buck-Up That Is!

By: Linda Ricca

Linda Ricca — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:37:13 +0000

Count me in!! I’m game for attending Camp Buck-Up and I have a few people to bring with me.

By: Kate Dexter

Kate Dexter — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:53:19 +0000

I would very much like Camp Buck UP…maybe that might be the thing to motivate me in these economic trials…even having a mentor kicking me in the rear and giving me the “YOU CAN DO THIS.”

By: Ramona S. Norton, RN-BC, CLNC

Ramona S. Norton, RN-BC, CLNC — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:06:15 +0000

Always enjoy your blogs. Thank you!!!

By: Melanie Morris, MBA, BSN, RN, CCRN, CLNC

Melanie Morris, MBA, BSN, RN, CCRN, CLNC — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:59:14 +0000

I would like to see an activity where two people, novice and mentor, are tied by the right/left wrist and have to work TOGETHER, 3 handed so to speak, to accomplish a task. It would be so refreshing to see a novice actually listen and hear what an experienced person has to offer. I personally will be the first to sign up!

I have been a CLNC^® consultant for almost 10 years and much as I try to cut corners and “do it my way in my time,” it doesn’t work! Vicki has been telling us that forever (OK, only since the 80′s!) and I am still not listening.

Thank you for all of your advice, encouragement and “kicks in the behind!”

By: Diana Schmitt, RN, BSN, CLNC

Diana Schmitt, RN, BSN, CLNC — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:11:35 +0000

Sign me up for Camp Buck-up and I know ten people I want to drag with me! Seriously, the honey-moon phase after the CLNC^® Certification Program or NACLNC^® Conferences does wear off. There was no one telling me, "Get those marketing fliers out, or else!" Sometimes I wish there had been. Even if Camp Buck-up becomes a reality, I am afraid that I won't follow through until the next sign-up. In the meantime, I will be slack and begin the familiar patterns of what Vickie describes in the blog, complaining and having no motivation of my own to do positive activities to build my business. Vickie is right, I need daily reminders of encouragement and that I can only eat my elephant one bite at a time. At Camp Buck-up, besides the yearly gathering of whiners and complainers ready to be transformed into self-disciplined individuals with positive attributes to contribute, I would like to see quarterly refresher activities to help those whose honey-moon phase is very short (mine). But seriously, it is so easy to forget our goals as legal nurse consultants, especially with the pressures of everyday life competing for our time and energy. I need those daily reminders and the camaraderie of other CLNC^® consultants to maintain the right attitude and get the work done. Vickie pulls all of this together so that these resources are at our fingertips. Even without Camp Buck-up, no one else encourages and motivates CLNC^® consultants like Vickie, no one.