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Nurse Critical Care-Cardiothoracic Mission Trip in Nepal
Healthcare Mission Nepal Kathmandu Rural Clinics Central America Outreach Charity
Mission Statement:
We offer customized programs with flexible start dates. You choose when you want to volunteer and for how long. We personalize each program to suit your skills and preferences. Regardless if you are traveling solo, with your family, as a group mission, gap year or medical mission, we can arrange a rewarding volunteer experience. A Broader View Volunteers Corp is a 501 c (3) tax-exempt charity. All program costs, including the cost of airfare, are tax-deductible as well as the donations from friends, family, work, church and other organization that may help you fundraising. You will receive a donation form for your fundraising.
Medical, Nurses, Dental, EMT
For Students
Different areas needed
Description:
Medical Internship
Medical and Nursing students are welcome at the International Children''s Hospital. Applicants must go through a referral (documentation) process and registration + a $200 administrative cost will need to be paid. As a volunteer in this program you will be surrounded by a supportive and friendly group of medical staff committed to bringing quality and accessible health care to the people of Nepal. Its rapid growth ensures a wide variety of possible projects available for the prospective volunteer- everything from observing local doctors to developing your own self initiated project. You will gain first-hand experience of many tropical diseases and common health problems of a developing country. Volunteers will also be posted to the out-patient departments and the casualty rooms where they could see a variety of clinical cases. Medical students are requested to bring their own stethoscope and white coat. *One month minimum requirement, work schedule is 6 days a week, 8hrs per day.
Pre-MED Program
Pre-medical/nursing students are placed in a community clinic, in Kathmandu. This is an incredible opportunity to observe all facets of medicine in a Kathmandu Hospital with English-speaking doctors. You will get experience in x-ray, laboratory, dental, eyecare, emergency, pre and post-operative, OB/GYN and the surgical theatre. Make daily rounds with doctors who will engage you in the diagnostic process and treatments. This will look great on your medical school application. This is a primary care walk-in clinic, which sees a wide variety of out patients. Approximately 150–200 patients are seen each day, which includes those for immunizations, wound dressings, family planning, etc. Common complaints involve GI and respiratory ailments, muscle and joint pain, skin infections. The building is a four-story complex with the clinic on the main floor. There is a consultation room for outpatients, a primary care room and a private OB/GYN room. The first floor consists of lab facilities, x-ray, dark room, a small operation theater, and physical therapy. The second floor houses the ultra-sound room, the optometry facilities, the dental room and the medical storage room. The upper floor has the DOTS delivery facility, the kitchen, the offices and board room. Volunteers will spend the majority of their time shadowing and observing physicians at the clinic. . This program is ideal for pre-meds who wish to gain some knowledge about how medicine is practiced in a third world country. *Administrative fee of $100 per month is collected for all medical placements.
Profession:
Nurse
Specialty:
Critical Care-Cardiothoracic
Region:
Asia & Oceania
Country:
Nepal
Starting date:
2012-Jul-02
Ending date:
2017-Jul-02
Posted:
2012-Jul-02
Paid Opportunity:
Volunteer