ALERT!!! CALLING ALL Healthcare pros - your experience is needed! Kindness needed in your community!

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Licensed healthcare professionals are needed! Are you a licensed healthcare professional? If so, we also have a high need for health care workers to provide assistance and healthcare to shelter residents. With predictions for a very active hurricane and wildfire season, disaster victims need your expert care and comfort. Training is free and CE credit is available. For those able to travel outside of their local area, a commitment of at least 10 consecutive days, with shifts of 8 or 12 hours each (we'll cover travel, food, and accommodations) OR stay local. If the need arises, volunteers are asked to commit to multiple local shifts of 4, 8 or 12 hours each.Licensed Required: RN, LPN, LVN, EMT, Paramedic, MD, DO, PA, NP, APRN. It’s the hardest job you will ever love!

Key Responsibilities:Disaster Health Services Supervisor (IDC/DHS/SV).

• Lead team of licensed healthcare professionals
• Act as liaison for DHS team with the shelter manager
• Assist DHS service associates with documentation and data gathering (including C-MIST interview).
• Communicate access and functional needs of clients to shelter manager
• Provide hands-on care as necessary, including assistance with activities of daily living, wound care, incontinence care, health assessments, health education, and determination that a higher level of care is needed for the client
• Observation and health screening for COVID-19 like illness for all shelter clients daily
• Lead the management of a shelter isolation care area.
• Complete required virtual self-paced and instructor-led training for the position (29 hours total)

Key Responsibilities: Disaster Health Services Service Associate (IDC/DHS/SA).

• Provide hands-on care for shelter clients to include but not limited to assistance with activities of daily living, wound care, incontinence care, and assistance with functional needs.
• Provide health education, health assessments, and determination if a higher level of care is needed.
• Assist clients to replace medications, durable medical equipment, or consumable medical supplies.
• Advocate for client needs with the Disaster Health Services supervisor.
• Support maternal and child needs as necessary.

• Complete required virtual self-paced and instructor-led training required for the position (9 hours total).

Time Commitment: Varies by disaster

Sign-up to volunteer today ! Please email questions to Kari Strain, the Sr. Volunteer Recruiter Specialist, at Kari.strain@redcross.org or (509) 679-8795.