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Palliative Nurse
ORGANIZATION: Mercy Ships
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The Palliative Care Nurse assists in providing holistic end-of-life care to people who are suffering of a terminal illness. By caring for those often isolated, hopeless and fearful patients and their families, this position is a living example of God’s love and compassion for the weak, lonely and marginalized members of society. You will be working primarily off-ship visiting palliative care patients in their homes.
What You Will Contribute* Support terminally ill patients and their family members through the grieving process, preparing them for death
* Train and assist family members with wound care for the afflicted person
* Share basic health principles with terminally ill patients and family members in order to improve their health
* Encourage the use of local, affordable materials for wound care and locally available analgesia
* Encourage the family to find ways to be self-supporting and teach them about planning for the future
* Assist in reaching out to local healthcare professionals who care for palliative patients, build meaningful relationships, assess their practical and intellectual needs and assist them in sustainable and culturally appropriate ways, through mentoring and teaching
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About Mercy Ships
Location:
P.O. Box 2020, Lindale, TX 75771, US
Mission Statement
We follow the 2000-year-old example of Jesus, bringing hope and healing to the world's forgotten poor.
Description
Mercy Ships is a global charity that has been operating hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. Mercy Ships provides free life-changing surgeries to the poor and trains local medical professionals in safe surgery techniques in an effort to help end the world's safe surgery crisis.
On average, 1300 volunteers from over 50 nations serve onboard with Mercy Ships each year - whether they're surgeons or engineers, cooks or IT professionals, teachers or accountants, etc. Every role is critical to the success of our mission.
To volunteer with Mercy Ships, please submit an application online at apply.mercyships.org!
CAUSE AREAS
Community,
Faith-Based,
Health & Medicine
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Africa Mercy75771Sierra Leone
(8.460555 ,-11.779889 )
DATE POSTED
November 9, 2024
SKILLS
- Nursing
- Patient Care
- Healthcare
- Hospice Care
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 23
- Orientation or Training
- 2 years