|
| Health
Professionals | | | What role might I play?
The
role you play in a response depends upon your training and skills.
Possible emergency response roles are: - Assisting in delivery of medical care within your level
of expertise as an RN, LPN, CNA, MD, EMT, medical secretary, or other credentialed volunteer.
- Providing mental health support.
- Providing medical interpreting and translation services.
- Assisting with set up and flow of clinics.
- Lending the community your special skills during an
emergency event.
| Community Members | | | What role might I play? - Staff a telephone information hotline.
- Provide translation services.
- Greet and provide direction when people arrive at a triage or shelter site.
- Help with event set-up, maintenance, and administration
- Lend the community
any special skills.
|
Why is it necessary for me to register pre-disaster?
Following many disasters, large numbers of professionals
with many different skills show up to help, but many of them are turned away because they are without the safety
and emergency skills training given pre-event to keep personnel safe. An effective response requires that volunteers follow
a pre-established protocol for activation and follow the incident command system.
My time is valuable. What do I get in return?
- The satisfaction of giving back to your community through
providing health education or a health service and the satisfaction in assisting other local communities with essential
services during a time of emergency.
- Networking.
Meet other members of the community and experts in the field of public health preparedness, attend training events, and participating
in conference meetings.
- Receive cost-free or minimal cost training. Get prepared by the best. For the sake of safety, one training
per year is required to remain an active member.
|
 |
|
|
