Debi Mankame, MSN, RN, CPON

While going through nursing school, a copy of ‘Working Nurse’ crossed her path.  In that little nursing magazine was an article written by a Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times volunteer nurse, Fran Wiley.  Fran’s article was about the joys and rewards of camp nursing.  Debi was fascinated, and kept the magazine to remind herself what she wanted to do after finishing nursing school.

She volunteered at summer camp where she met camp volunteer nurses, Barb Britt, Fran Wiley and Dr. Susan. Debi was totally hooked, in love and wished she could be at camp for all of the summer. After that life changing summer, Debi began requesting a week of her vacation each summer to devote to being at camp, typically pestering Camp’s Associate Executive Director Brian Crater, for dates so she could get those vacation requests in at work before summer the vacation dates were all gone!

Her incredible dedication and commitment to camp in volunteering and her advocacy and help with outreach and recruitment at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been invaluable. Debi has also been influential in securing donations of medication for Camp’s Med Shed.