Brazil Volunteers with this new program provide continuing education and technical assistance for nurses, nursing students, and other professionals associated with Fundacao Esperanca in Santarem. In addition volunteers provide pediatric care to the patients of that institution.
Assignments are for one month and housing is provided.
Volunteers will be based at Georgetown Public Hospital and will teach medical students, nursing students, and post-graduates. Volunteers are needed monthly and housing is provided. St. Lucia Volunteers with this program will be providing pediatric care at St. Jude Hospital. This includes covering the delivery room for complications, examining babies on discharge, working the pediatric ward and covering the clinic and emergency room. Volunteers must be board certified or board eligible.