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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 16, 2021
Urgent call for nurses at hospitals statewide
Volunteer health providers sought for state Medical Reserve Corps
SANTA FE—The New Mexico Department of Health is working to strengthen the nurse workforce at hospitals statewide. Due to the increase in hospitalizations across the state, nurses and anyone with a medical license – including recently retired health care personnel with an active license – are asked to volunteer with the Medical Reserve Corps.
The New Mexico Medical Reserve Corps (NM MRC) maintains New Mexico’s statewide registry of volunteer healthcare providers and support personnel. It is part of the Emergency Systems for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR VHP).
Hospitals in New Mexico and across the country are experiencing an increase of hospitalized patients due to delayed care or postponed surgeries, and as a result of the surge in COVID-19 cases from the Delta variant that is 2-4 times more contagious than previous strains.
“Our modeling is predicting that New Mexico will see over 1000 cases per day in the next several weeks,” DOH Acting Secretary David R. Scrase, MD said. “We ask our nurses, and anyone with a medical license, to once again volunteer with the Medical Reserve Corps. To get through this together, we need everyone who can provide patient care to work side by side with us during this critical time.”
Throughout the pandemic, the Medical Reserve Corp Program filled over 139 requests for help throughout the state, deploying 2,750 volunteers who logged over 278,797 hours for COVID response.
Registration for NM MRC Serves is easy using the online volunteer registry program. Visit the NM MRC Serves website at volunteer.nmmrcserves.org. and sign up.
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In honor of my wife Sharon who is an RN and daughters Gretchen who is a Respiratory Therapist and all nurses, from my Dear Friend Veronica Sandoval: I suspect it is hard to love a nurse. We get up early or we work all night. We come home late and are too tired to cook. We work extra because we know there are sick people who need us. We miss weekend events, holidays, birthdays. We don’t get too excited over your minor “boo-boo”. We have seen far worse. We don’t want to talk when we come home. We have talked all day. We don’t want to move when we come home. We have moved all day. It may seem that we have left all our caring, our heart, and our love at work, then have come home to you empty. We probably have. But we don’t tell you that many times at work that we are mired by anxiety, we are scared. Scared we are missing something. Scared we will let our patient down or worse. Scared that we’ll have to deal with angry or violent patients and families. I suspect it is hard to love a nurse but know this: Your nurse needs your love. Needs your understanding. Needs to know that you “get it”. Needs to be the one taken care of every once and a while. Needs someone else to take charge of the details because doing it herself constantly is exhausting. Needs his/her feet rubbed. Needs a shoulder to cry on when she can’t even tell you why she’s grieving. Needs you to do the hardest work you may ever do, which is to love a nurse
I would like to thank those of you out there who love us and let us do this work, this calling, this life: Nursing.
I want to thank my Dear Friend Veronica Sandavol for sharing this, Veronica is also a nurse.
I do not know how Sharon and Gretchen do all they do! OH YES I DO! They are filled with the spirit of GOD! AMEN!
