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What training is required to volunteer for the Red Cross?

April 26, 2017red cross TRAINING volunteer

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What training is required to volunteer for the Red Cross?

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All disaster volunteers must take Introduction to Disaster Services either as a class or as a take-home video. This explains what we do and describes the various functions that comprise the disaster services team. You then take two classes: Disaster Health Services Overview and Disaster Health Services Simulation. We offer BRN contact hours for those classes. If you are a psychiatric RN, you can become a disaster mental health volunteer and there is two-day class for that function. How can nurses get involved? Contact your local Red Cross chapter. The Red Cross Web site is www.redcross.org. Or you can contact me at lynnh@paarc.org. To find out about disasters both locally and globally, visit www.disasterrelief.org. ©NurseWeek Publishing ‘); document.write(”); document.