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Thu Jan-14-10 11:20 AM
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I guess the title to this thread wasn't sexy enough

Edited on Thu Jan-14-10 11:42 AM by FourScore

This is an urgent message from the nurse's union. Unfortunately, it only had 22 views in the first 20 minutes, so I changed the title. The nurses union is asking for help and I would like to help spread their press release as far and wide as possible. Please help keep this kicked and forward it to any nurses you might know. Thanks.

Please help: Nurses union mobilizing thousands for Haiti relief - Imp. update
by nyceve
Thu Jan 14, 2010 at 06:24:45 AM PST

Update via Facebook:

American Airlines is FLYING DOCTORS and NURSES to Haiti FOR FREE, 212 697 9767 212 697 9767 UPS is SHIPPING to Haiti FOR **25% OFF** TOMORROW, under 50 lbs. ALSO, RED CROSS is looking for volunteers who speak CREOLE and ENGLISH to answer phones & be a TRANSLATOR. Contact ur local Red Cross. PLZ PASS THIS INFO ALONG

I received an urgent appeal from the National Nurses United (which used to be the National Nurses Organizing Committee/California Nurses Association), for donations and volunteers for their Haiti Relief efforts.

If you're a nurse or know any nurses, please participate in this conference call for mobilization instructions.

RNs CALL IN:
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
10 AM PST, 11 Mountain, 12 Central, 1 PM EST
Call: (866) 320-4709
Access Code: 143135

REGISTERED NURSES VOLUNTEER SIGN UP

http://www.calnurses.org/rnrn/rnrn-volunteer-form.html

This is one extraordinary union, (I know and have worked closely with these heroes for many years). And as always, these phenomenal nurses, supported by their equally outstanding union, will be on the front line of what needs to be a worldwide humanitarian relief effort for the people of Haiti.

The people of Haiti desperately need medical care, and the nurses union is stepping up, but they need volunteers and financial support.

PLEASE DONATE HERE:

https://secure.ga1.org/...

(Note: I don't normally write these sorts of PR diaries, but the urgency of the mission is so overwhelming that we need more than anything to disseminate information. If only a few trained medical people read this and respond, people who might not have known about this mobilization, then this is a net positive.)

This is from the press release the nurses union sent out yesterday.

For Immediate Release
January 14, 2010
Contact: Shum Preston, 510-273-2276, Liz Jacobs RN, 510-273-2232, or Chuck Idelson, 510-273-2246

National Conference Call TODAY
For 1,500 RN Volunteers for Haiti Relief Effort
Press Can Dial-in or Visit Local Offices in TX, FL, MA, NV, IL, CA and DC

Nurses Issue Urgent Appeal to Public to Support Nurse Relief Efforts

More than 1,500 registered nurses from across the U.S. have responded in less than one day to the call by the nation's largest organization of registered nurses for volunteers to provide assistance to residents of earthquake devastated Haiti — leading the RNs to now issue an urgent appeal for the public to support these efforts with donations of funds to support travel costs and medical supplies on their upcoming emergency nursing mission.

Press and nurses are invited to a conference call this morning at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time for an overview of the efforts and their logistics, including the details on the first teams of nurses traveling to the area. Press can call in for the briefing at (866) 320-4709 using the access code 143135, or gather with local nurses and representatives in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Miami.

The relief efforts are being coordinated by the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN), a project of the 150,000-member National Nurses United (NNU), formed last month through the unification of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, United American Nurses and Massachusetts Nurses Association. RNRN/NNU is hoping to have nurse volunteers on the ground in Haiti within the next few days and is coordinating with Haitian nurses on the effort.

Details are still being worked out, but those able to support the efforts of these nurses can get involved via:

* www.NationalNursesUnited.org to sign up to volunteer or donate

* @NationalNurses on twitter or by following: #haitiRN

* Call the RNRN hotline: 1-800-578-8225

* Support the RNRN/NNU disaster relief effort in Haiti by sending checks c/o California Nurses Foundation, 2000 Franklin St., Oakland, CA 94612. Charitable contributions will be used to pay for travel/related costs and medical supplies for volunteer RNs on their emergency nursing mission in Haiti.

RNRN sent hundreds of nurse volunteers to the Gulf region following Hurricane Katrina. RNRN has also sent volunteers to Sri Lanka after the South Asia tsunami and to help following huge Southern California wildfires. RNRN is affiliated with National Nurses United, AFL-CIO, the national union and professional association for registered nurses.

"The need for help has never been so acute. We need financial support to transport them," said NNU Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro. "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," DeMoro said.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/14/824838/-Please-help:-Nurses-union-mobilizing-thousands-for-Haiti-reliefImp.-update