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April 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Some volunteer activities such as arts and crafts at Bright Side Manor challenged us to be innovative in creating our own arts and crafts activities that were fun, useful and easy for the elderly residents to construct on their own. Another example, ...
March 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Thousands of Red Cross nurses are trained disaster responders. Our ranks include volunteers like Mary Steece, RN, of Scottsboro, Ala., who dropped everything to travel to Louisville, Ky., where she is helping people who lost so much in the tornados ...
February 25, 2010 | Story
Nurses get positive media coverage for their volunteer efforts to help save and improve lives in Haiti.
February 17, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Through the next few years, the Nurse’s Desk would reappear each spring and the students would go through the now-familiar process. At the start of term they needed to gain the confidence to invite people to come visit the Nurse’s Desk and have thei ...
January 29, 2012 | Story
As the economic downturn made hunger and food insecurity more common last year, nurses stepped up to help meet the need.
September 15, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
So in the weeks and months leading up to hurricane season, we put our leadership teams in place, and make sure our rosters of volunteers have been refreshed. After all, it’s a largely volunteer workforce we rely on, and these are men and women who a ...
May 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Times of Trenton is reporting on the extraordinary work of Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s senior adviser for nursing, who is in Alabama helping victims of the recent tornadoes. An American Red Cross ...
July 1, 2001 | Program Result
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
May 1, 1997 | Program Result
From 1992 to 1996, the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic established a model volunteer clinic on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island, providing care to medically underserved residents and low-income people employed on the island.
August 10, 2011 | Story
For families that struggle to meet basic needs like adequate food or housing, clinical care is only part of the solution.