Scrubs - The Nurse's Guide to Good Living» Volunteer http://scrubsmag.com The lifestyle magazine for nurses featuring career articles, style tips, and nurse blogs. Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:54:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Texas search and rescue team staying home http://scrubsmag.com/texas-search-and-rescue-team-staying-home/ http://scrubsmag.com/texas-search-and-rescue-team-staying-home/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 22:08:06 +0000 Jennifer Fink, RN, BSN http://scrubsmag.com/?p=8750 Texas Task Force 1, one of 28 teams in FEMA’s national and urban search and rescue system, was prepared to go to Haiti with 50 tons of rescue equipment.  The task force was demobilized on January 18 after the United Nations declared the search and rescue teams already in Haiti sufficient for the job. 

Texas Task Force 1 has an international repuation and was ready to go within four hours of receiving the initial call. 

Sources: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6821324.html

http://www.kfdm.com/news/-36228–.html

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While the American Medical Association is strongly urging doctors and nurses to stay home unless they are part of an organized team deploying to Haiti, Partners in Health, an aid organization that has been working in Haiti for 20 years, is still looking for OR nurses, post-op and critical care nurses and nurse anesthetists.  If you’d like to volunteer, fill out this form.

Partners in Health is also stil accepting donations of orthopedic supplies, sutures, bandages, non-powedered sterile gloves, syringes,  blankets, tents and satellite phones with minutes.  Financial support is also desparately needed.

]]> http://scrubsmag.com/how-to-help-haiti/feed/ 2 RN volunteer program puts retired nurses back in touch with patient care http://scrubsmag.com/rn-volunteer-program-puts-retired-nurses-back-in-touch-with-patient-care/ http://scrubsmag.com/rn-volunteer-program-puts-retired-nurses-back-in-touch-with-patient-care/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:44:21 +0000 Scrubs http://scrubsmag.com/?p=8356

Retired nurses in Columbus, Ohio, no longer need to experience the limitations of patient care as a typical volunteer. A special program has been created just for RN’s to allow them to perform many more duties as a regular nurse would.

According to retired nurses who are participating in the program, the experience puts them back in touch with what they love to do — patient care — in a stress-free environment.

The RN Volunteer program at Riverside Methodist Hospital launched in July, 2009.

Retired nurses who are interested in volunteering can do so by calling 614-566-2669.

Source: NBC4 Columbus, OH

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