Services

Assignments depend on a variety of factors that each volunteer brings to the program, such as licensure, physical ability, skills, areas of interest, and training.

Here are some examples of what MRC volunteers could be asked to do:

• Licensed medical professionals including physicians and nurses
  • Working in triage
  • Providing critical care in the field
  • Assisting with transportation of patients
  • Monitoring critical patients
  • Mass immunizations
  • Staffing special-needs shelters
  • Supplementing hospital personnel
• Additional skilled healthcare workers
  • Assisting Health Department workers distribute medication or with a phone bank
  • Provision of pharmaceuticals, antidotes, and other medical supplies
  • Record-keeping
  • Assisting with emergency communications such as HAM operators.
• Non-healthcare, lay volunteers assisting healthcare teams with
  • Accounting
  • Record-keeping
  • Building computer databases
  • Communications to help coordinate and promote safety of the many volunteers and residents affected by the emergency.