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[ back ] Clinicians on call when disaster strikes
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Welcome to Pediatric Disaster Response Team MA-1. The team, made up of doctors and nurses from across the region who deploy to areas in need in times of disaster, has about a dozen active members from Children's, but they're looking to grow. –It's not for everyone,” says team member and Emergency Department nurse Allen Bouchard, RN. –But for some it's a rewarding way to help people in a truly desperate situation. You also learn many skills that you don't have exposure to in your regular practice.” The team is particularly in need of critical care nurses, medical staff and surgeons with a knack for improvising and functioning independently. Bouchard says that it takes a certain personality to thrive in a disaster. –You have to be flexible and self-sufficient, because you may be suturing a wound one moment and lugging a generator through the mud the next,” he says. If you are a clinician and would like to learn more about the team, e-mail allen.bouchard@childrens.harvard.edu. —CM More information: www.ma1boston.com.
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