Haiti Relief

As we all know, unless you're under a rock, there was a large earthquake in Haiti earlier this week that resulted in thousands of deaths and massive destruction. Well, does anyone remember my blog about the new nursing super-union? In response to this tragedy, they have issued an urgent call for nurse volunteers to help in "Earthquake Ravaged Haiti." The National Nurses United activated its nationwide disaster relief program to recruit nurse volunteers to help residents of Haiti following the earthquake devastation. Just to remind everybody, the 150,000-member NNU was formed last month through the unification of California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses, and Massachusetts Nurses Association.

“Nurses will be fundamental to the disaster relief process, to provide immediate healing and therapeutic support to the patients and families facing the devastation from this tragic earthquake,” the Co-Executive Director, Rose Ann DeMoro, said. They are working on sending nurses to provide emergency short and long term medical support, as they have done in previous major disasters, such as Katrina.