International Service Opportunities for OR Nurses.

International Service

Opportunitiesfor OR Nurses

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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®