Licensed RN's/LPN's--SLIDELL LA NEEDS YOU

[ducklite]

The city of Slidell is asking for anyone who is a nurse and can present a valid license who can possibly get there to please do so. They have a lot of sick and injured people who need professional care, and no one to render it.

I'm hoping that maybe some hospitals and doctors offices outside the effected areas will find it in their hearts to grrant paid leave to nurses who want to go help out in the disaster areas for a few days to a week. Or perhaps some of the pharmacuetical companies can underwrite this type of service. It's simply the right thing to do.

Anne

 

[ducklite]

Just trying to bump this one back up...

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Wonder if people can copy and paste and e-mail to those they know.

Giving you a bump!

Also--the special needs shelter at LSU is in need of critical medical and care supplies....like crash carts and diapers that I remember--general supplies that you would need in triage (don't know the names) as well as medications.

So if you work in a hospital----they need stuff!!! Talk to your bosses!

 

[TeresaNJ]

With the huge nursing shortage and hospitals barely able to take care of their own patients, I highly doubt they would foot the bill to pay some of their own nurses while volunteering in LA. There are many supplemental staffing agencies though who employ nurses that are not beholden to any hospital, but again, who would pay them?

 

[ducklite]

With the huge nursing shortage and hospitals barely able to take care of their own patients, I highly doubt they would foot the bill to pay some of their own nurses while volunteering in LA. There are many supplemental staffing agencies though who employ nurses that are not beholden to any hospital, but again, who would pay them?

Like I said, I'm hoping that perhaps the pharmacuetical companies might want to help underwrite it. Some of them are flush with cash. Very flush.

Anne

 

[TeresaNJ]

Just wanted to clarify that I don't think people who are willing to volunteer to help should be paid, just that hospitals can't even staff themselves safely, so I doubt they'd pay their own staff to go work elsewhere.

 

[marlasmom]

My nurse daughter would go in a heartbeat, leaving us to babysit grandson, two dogs and cat (which we would be happy to do), but she is recovering from 7 months without pay due to her illness and no disability insurance so she just could not go without being paid.

 

[TeresaNJ]

That would be great if the pharmaceutical companies would do that. Even if they offered to pay the for the volunteers transportation, shelter, and meals while the nurses donated their time for a few days would be a huge help. I wouldn't mind going for a few days to help out in that situation. I just know that my hospital would not let us take off from our scheduled days. It would have to be on our own time. Believe it or not, here in the great Northeast, it is a scary situation most days in our hospital, too many patients, too few nurses. Anyone thinking about becoming a nurse, this is the time to do it. You'll never have to worry about not having a job or being laid off. I could work 24/7 if I wanted to. Honestly, for two years of education, you can have a secure job for life, with benefits and lots of vacation time.

 

[ducklite]

Just wanted to clarify that I don't think people who are willing to volunteer to help should be paid, just that hospitals can't even staff themselves safely, so I doubt they'd pay their own staff to go work elsewhere.

I agree, volunteers should be just that. But there are costs associated with volunteering, loss of income, travel expenses, etc.

The Body Shop requires it's employees to volunteer a certain number of hours a month on company time. I was hoping that perhaps some nurses could volunteer to go to SLydell and still get their paycheck from their employer, even if it means that the employer is reimbursed by someone else for it. For example someone who works in a busy medical practice goes for a week. For teh other employees it would be like that person was on vacation. They would continue to get paid while they were gone, and the cost of keeping this person on the payroll would be born by either the practice, or perhaps the practice could apply for a subsidy from a pharmacuetical company.

Hope that better explains what I was trying to say.

Anne

 

[hercamore]

Mayo Clinic usually sends disaster teams out to affected areas. I know they sent many medical personnel to the tsunami areas.

herc.

 

[Planogirl]

Maybe the military could get some medical staff into that area.

 

[ducklite]

Maybe the military could get some medical staff into that area.

I hope so!

Anne