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International Service
Opportunitiesfor OR Nurses
© 2009 Integrated Medical Systems International, Inc. All rights reserved.04/18/23 07:10 PM
Lot of Pain in the World
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3 Opportunities to Help
• Talk. Get the word out on Instruments of Mercy® or other organizations
• Act. Take the lead, e.g., help a medical mission get instruments ready
• Go. Volunteer to go on a medical mission
TALK: GET THE WORD OUT3 Opportunities to Help
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International Organizations
• Doctors Without Borders, www.doctorswithoutborders.org
• Mercy Ships, www.mercyships.org • COAN, www.coanhealth.com • International Children’s Heart Foundation,
www.babyheart.org • Operation Smile, www.operationsmile.org • International Health Volunteers,
www.internationalhealthvolunteers.org – Database for international healthcare volunteers and
organizations that need their services
• Instruments of Mercy, www.instrumentsofmercy.org – Provides surgical instrument repair for medical volunteer
teams, and can help you connect with organizations it serves
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Instruments of Mercy, Inc.®
• Non-profit organization established in ‘04 to repair and refurbish surgical instruments for medical missions Flexible endoscopes Rigid endoscopes Power equipment Stainless instruments Laparoscopic & specialty instruments
• Works directly with the surgeon or team lead
www.instrumentsofmercy.org
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Instruments of Mercy-Supported International
Missions• Haiti • El Salvador • Guatemala • Columbia • Ecuador • Kenya • Nicaragua • Venezuela • Dominican Republic
• Hungary• Pakistan • Mongolia • Tanzania • India • Benin• Togo • Cambodia• Nigeria
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“They were using a corded Black and Decker drill or hand drill back then and had no arthroscopic equipment.”-- Jeffery K. Kobs, MD, orthopedic surgeon and president of COAN (Cooperación Ortopédica Americano Nicargüense), a non-profit organization providing orthopedic services in Leon, Nicaragua
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“There is nothing more frustrating to physicians than to be without the means of diagnosing problems because they lack adequate equipment.”
-- Sheryl Snyder, President, Hope Clinic International, which sends one surgical mission team per year to La Mascota, Nicaragua’s only children’s hospital
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Get the Word Out
• … within your facilities– Surgeons – Nurses– Surgical Technicians– Others
• … within your communities– Professional Organizations– Civic Organizations– Churches– Others
• … within your families
www.instrumentsofmercy.org
TAKE THE LEAD3 Opportunities to Help
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Haiti Earthquake 2010
• “100 critical … need to get to operating room”
• “… using hacksaw to cut off child’s leg”
• “… looks like Civil War medicine”
• “… rusty instruments”
Taking the Lead
Rapid Response for Haiti
• Miami Medical Team Foundation: 570 instruments• Surgical Volunteers International: 31 instruments • El Shaddai Ministries International: 142 instruments, 1 drill, 2 rotary drivers, 4
saws and 1 charger• Gottlieb Memorial Hospital: 267 instruments
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Widespread Response for Haiti
• Tom Flood, RN, Executive Director, Surgical Volunteers International
• Haiti … working with:– Nurses 4 Haiti– Smile Train– Instruments of Mercy
• Instruments ready– “Most of the major amputations done …”– Grafts
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Taking the Lead: Help Find one Urgently
Needed Item• In Vietnam and many other places … using the Humby knife
• Need dermatomes for underdeveloped areas of the world
• If you can help, contact [email protected]
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Take the Lead
• Support a medical team from your community … or help to organize a trip
• Assist the team by locating instruments and supplies
• Contact Instruments of Mercy to refurbish the instruments for the trip
GO ON A MEDICAL MISSION3 Opportunities to Help
Volunteering with Mercy Ships
• Opportunity to help those in desparate need of medical attention on the world’s largest non-governmental hospital ship, the Africa Mercy
• Thousands of surgeries performed annually• AORN partnership with Mercy Ships®