1 00:00:02,11 --> 00:00:06,56 If I want to ask you to describe the Medical Reserve Corps could you do it would 2 00:00:06,57 --> 00:00:08,35 you even know what it is how it got 3 00:00:08,36 --> 00:00:11,96 a start Stay tuned for health watch you learned that and much more. 4 00:00:32,12 --> 00:00:36,87 Hello I'm Terence Afghanistan and this is health watch nature of the National 5 00:00:36,88 --> 00:00:41,41 Association of County and City health officials because the following comments made 6 00:00:41,42 --> 00:00:42,76 by an official at the U.S. 7 00:00:42,77 --> 00:00:46,43 Department of Health and Human Services showed me after the events of September the 8 00:00:46,44 --> 00:00:51,72 eleventh two thousand and one nine eleven the human response to the tragedy made 9 00:00:51,73 --> 00:00:55,94 you feel like somehow good was going to come out of this well of an attack the 10 00:00:55,95 --> 00:01:01,38 towers had failed if their purpose was to terrorize us what it did was galvanise us 11 00:01:02,09 --> 00:01:06,13 when the Twin Towers fell in New York and the city's magnificent skyline was 12 00:01:06,14 --> 00:01:08,76 changed forever a host of physicians and 13 00:01:08,77 --> 00:01:12,81 a vast array of other professionals and concerned Americans volunteered their 14 00:01:12,82 --> 00:01:18,71 services for hours for days for weeks and there's something quite remarkable about 15 00:01:18,72 --> 00:01:21,85 seeing the American spirit coalescence a unified force 16 00:01:22,11 --> 00:01:26,87 a union in the face of adversity and following nine eleven the spirit of Allah to 17 00:01:26,88 --> 00:01:32,24 resume became the heartbeat the pulse of the nation and today one Health Watch With 18 00:01:32,25 --> 00:01:36,10 want to take a look at the most noteworthy example of that magnificent spirit 19 00:01:36,11 --> 00:01:41,60 a volunteer risen the Medical Reserve Corps My guest today on the bus the quoting 20 00:01:41,61 --> 00:01:46,67 data of the Norfolk Medical Reserve Corps and two of her very dedicated volunteers 21 00:01:46,91 --> 00:01:52,42 Tavia Pettway and Sean has Welcome to help us ladies thank you letter day if you 22 00:01:52,43 --> 00:01:58,66 hear. I like to start off with some personal insight about volunteerism and why you 23 00:01:58,67 --> 00:02:00,91 do it and but certainly with Medical Reserve Corps 24 00:02:01,16 --> 00:02:04,27 a lot began with you learned you were in charge of 25 00:02:04,28 --> 00:02:08,82 a Medical Reserve Corps unit it was constant What was it about the Norfolk medical 26 00:02:08,83 --> 00:02:14,97 reserve corps that what you hear. The opportunity to work more in public health my 27 00:02:14,98 --> 00:02:18,21 unit in Wisconsin was based out of Emergency Management Wisconsin is 28 00:02:18,22 --> 00:02:18,66 a little bit of 29 00:02:18,67 --> 00:02:23,64 a different system. To new system is really folly based on public health and the 30 00:02:23,65 --> 00:02:27,68 opportunity to work within public health with public health professionals was 31 00:02:27,69 --> 00:02:33,16 really exciting to me OK And what about you know what was it about the but it was 32 00:02:33,17 --> 00:02:37,86 a quote of May just say I've got to volunteer while I was in the process of 33 00:02:37,87 --> 00:02:43,16 changing my major at school I currently was pre law and I was thinking about going 34 00:02:43,17 --> 00:02:50,12 pre-med mainly because I had been. Dedicated to supporting 35 00:02:50,13 --> 00:02:51,57 my mother she's been an R.N. 36 00:02:51,58 --> 00:02:57,51 For about thirty years and I wanted to find that fulfillment within the health care 37 00:02:57,52 --> 00:03:04,05 system as she does so she advised before I. Made that change 38 00:03:04,44 --> 00:03:09,60 try volunteering try seeing you know if that's where your heart is to go with it so 39 00:03:09,60 --> 00:03:16,46 . I hooked up with Linda and about three months in I was told from the 40 00:03:16,47 --> 00:03:20,29 experiences of the exercises to the people I met it was 41 00:03:20,46 --> 00:03:25,75 a complete package so you found your heart must not just in medicine alone but 42 00:03:25,79 --> 00:03:30,23 involuntary with mountaineering do you have any previous history of volunteering in 43 00:03:30,24 --> 00:03:33,38 the so what other kind of things I've done I do belong to 44 00:03:33,39 --> 00:03:38,18 a fraternal organization that is very charitable driven we've done things with 45 00:03:38,19 --> 00:03:45,00 sickle cell Breast Care Awareness we've done some things concerning food and 46 00:03:45,01 --> 00:03:50,49 clothing donations to shelters and we've also done some children and touring. And 47 00:03:50,50 --> 00:03:54,99 so what about you what prompted you to volunteer for the loss of Medical Reserve 48 00:03:55,00 --> 00:03:58,92 Corps we had recently relocated to Norfolk and I had 49 00:03:58,93 --> 00:04:04,07 a chance over do it for my forgotten Rhode Island Oh good for me french toast you 50 00:04:04,08 --> 00:04:10,71 know small estate and you know. I have been had volunteered with the Medical 51 00:04:10,72 --> 00:04:15,44 Reserve Corps and Rhode Island and then shortly after we moved here I was in search 52 00:04:15,45 --> 00:04:19,46 of something to do and I found that it really helps you become part of the new 53 00:04:19,47 --> 00:04:24,84 community that you're in. Well let me ask the question would come up but back to 54 00:04:24,85 --> 00:04:26,51 you Linda I do want to ask the both of you 55 00:04:26,52 --> 00:04:31,22 a question. Has your experience with the Medical Reserve Corps have you found 56 00:04:31,23 --> 00:04:37,08 a different than any other ball to experience that you've done. I would say with 57 00:04:37,09 --> 00:04:37,39 M.R. 58 00:04:37,40 --> 00:04:43,25 See it's definitely going to be it was more public health driven. Volunteering that 59 00:04:43,26 --> 00:04:47,92 I've done with the fraternal organization that belong to. Me even touch 60 00:04:47,93 --> 00:04:52,00 a surface shit compared to what Marcy was out there doing for the community 61 00:04:52,67 --> 00:04:58,35 yourself Sean did you notice any difference at all well I think at I was at the end 62 00:04:58,36 --> 00:05:03,66 of my career anyway which put me most in administration and that's allowed me to 63 00:05:03,67 --> 00:05:07,76 get back to why I became a nurse and actually interact with people on 64 00:05:07,77 --> 00:05:11,48 a regular basis which is really what I became 65 00:05:11,49 --> 00:05:15,78 a nice to do but it also allowed me to meet people in my community and to be of 66 00:05:15,79 --> 00:05:18,22 service could lend 67 00:05:18,45 --> 00:05:22,50 a kind of alluded to the silly you in terms of the you the origins of the Medical 68 00:05:22,51 --> 00:05:23,88 Reserve Bill can you elaborate on that 69 00:05:23,89 --> 00:05:28,84 a little bit while the Medical Reserve Corps was founded after nine eleven it was 70 00:05:28,85 --> 00:05:29,66 actually founded by 71 00:05:29,67 --> 00:05:32,96 a group of physicians in New York who could see that there was sort of 72 00:05:32,97 --> 00:05:37,98 a volunteer crisis going on on the ground lots of people saw those images on T.V. 73 00:05:37,99 --> 00:05:40,39 And lots of people came to New York to help and it's 74 00:05:40,40 --> 00:05:46,11 a really really challenging to manage volunteers to utilize volunteers if you don't 75 00:05:46,12 --> 00:05:50,11 know who they are what their skill sets are within the M.R.C. 76 00:05:50,12 --> 00:05:51,94 That's part of what we do with you as 77 00:05:51,95 --> 00:05:56,20 a volunteer is we verify your credentials and we get we get to know what your skill 78 00:05:56,21 --> 00:06:01,86 sets are so that we can appropriately use your skills as needed for routine public 79 00:06:01,87 --> 00:06:06,51 health functions and for emergencies and disasters so since that time the national 80 00:06:06,52 --> 00:06:07,94 M.R.C. Has grown from 81 00:06:08,12 --> 00:06:13,22 a small group of physicians in New York City to over nine hundred units across the 82 00:06:13,23 --> 00:06:18,64 United States over to over two hundred five thousand volunteers and right now the 83 00:06:18,65 --> 00:06:19,13 M.R.C. 84 00:06:19,14 --> 00:06:23,72 Covers about ninety percent of the country. Plus amazing you know these two beautiful 85 00:06:23,73 --> 00:06:28,95 ladies Well that's it for you and Shaun what else can you tell us about the valves 86 00:06:28,96 --> 00:06:32,71 of your volunteers to come for you Mitch and positions us over there literally 87 00:06:32,72 --> 00:06:38,60 people as we have so many people from all different walks of life in our unit we 88 00:06:38,61 --> 00:06:41,78 have a few retirees in our unit so Sean and 89 00:06:41,79 --> 00:06:45,52 a handful of other people that I have are a blessing because you tend to have 90 00:06:45,53 --> 00:06:50,91 a little bit more time nonetheless we have lots of students in our unit we have 91 00:06:50,92 --> 00:06:52,88 lots of military in our unit and we have 92 00:06:52,89 --> 00:06:56,94 a ton of working professionals in our unit and when I say working professionals I 93 00:06:56,95 --> 00:07:02,07 mean health care professionals and non-medical support professionals such as Tavia 94 00:07:03,00 --> 00:07:05,09 people often realize the public health has 95 00:07:05,10 --> 00:07:08,72 a lot of functions to it and it's not all hands on nursing there's 96 00:07:08,73 --> 00:07:13,14 a lot of things that happen that require administrative logistics communication 97 00:07:13,15 --> 00:07:14,18 Absolutely and 98 00:07:14,22 --> 00:07:19,04 a number of other different support functions to make that that nursing or that 99 00:07:19,05 --> 00:07:23,99 clinical piece happen so how does someone become involved with the multiple reserve 100 00:07:24,00 --> 00:07:28,48 call what is the process most people find us through you know one of 101 00:07:28,49 --> 00:07:33,56 a different couple different channels. On line or they call me or call the Health 102 00:07:33,57 --> 00:07:37,29 Department and what I have have them do is fill out 103 00:07:37,30 --> 00:07:41,10 a voluntary application and that's done on line it takes about ten minutes to fill 104 00:07:41,11 --> 00:07:44,70 out the application and what they're actually doing when they're completing an 105 00:07:44,71 --> 00:07:47,71 application is creating a volunteer profile and that becomes 106 00:07:47,72 --> 00:07:51,98 a profile that I put their hours into so they have access to that information if 107 00:07:51,99 --> 00:07:58,70 they need hours for resumes or what have you once they complete that application it 108 00:07:58,71 --> 00:08:02,58 comes to me and then I set them up for orientation and they take their orientation 109 00:08:02,59 --> 00:08:06,51 and then from that point once they get their background check back they can begin 110 00:08:06,52 --> 00:08:11,30 volunteering there is some training that they need to complete and we have them 111 00:08:11,31 --> 00:08:16,94 work on their training well they're volunteering. But they can get hands on pretty 112 00:08:16,95 --> 00:08:18,99 quickly and when asked about the training in just 113 00:08:19,00 --> 00:08:25,15 a moment but you mention the twelve. All fulfill hopes you kind of aligned 114 00:08:25,19 --> 00:08:29,81 the. Interest of those you have 115 00:08:29,82 --> 00:08:36,17 a profile asked some questions about volunteer interests. Truthfully me personally 116 00:08:36,18 --> 00:08:40,31 I really just like to get to know volunteers or I know that when I put out the 117 00:08:40,32 --> 00:08:44,53 certain types of requests I almost know who's going to sign up for it just because 118 00:08:44,54 --> 00:08:47,24 I know what certain people like to do obviously it's 119 00:08:47,25 --> 00:08:48,41 a lot more challenging if you're 120 00:08:48,42 --> 00:08:53,75 a new volunteer and I haven't got to know you well yeah but I will and so it gives 121 00:08:53,76 --> 00:08:55,65 me the profile itself gives me 122 00:08:55,66 --> 00:09:00,46 a general idea of what you like to do but it helps me to align your skills and I 123 00:09:00,47 --> 00:09:02,78 have to do a credential check off of that So if you're 124 00:09:02,79 --> 00:09:06,13 a license healthcare professional I have to check your credentials and that helps 125 00:09:06,14 --> 00:09:13,03 me to do that as well. As. Great overview of different projects and I want to 126 00:09:13,04 --> 00:09:14,38 talk about some of those minutes 127 00:09:14,42 --> 00:09:18,93 a couple loved ones of particular but most recently on the you were involved with 128 00:09:18,94 --> 00:09:25,52 the huge. Project Home disconnect what is homeless conduct and oh what's 129 00:09:25,53 --> 00:09:25,96 a medical is 130 00:09:25,97 --> 00:09:30,48 a portable almost connect is actually run through the Norfolk City office to end 131 00:09:30,49 --> 00:09:32,02 homelessness and it is 132 00:09:32,03 --> 00:09:38,93 a huge service event that provides critical services to the homeless. The Norfolk 133 00:09:38,94 --> 00:09:39,39 M.R.C. 134 00:09:39,40 --> 00:09:44,32 Is in charge of the medical sections so we are there working with other vendors who 135 00:09:44,33 --> 00:09:49,75 provide health services so you read the entire medical section yes. And then 136 00:09:49,76 --> 00:09:51,95 there's other services offered I.D. 137 00:09:52,38 --> 00:09:56,03 Haircuts veterans' services housing obviously 138 00:09:56,04 --> 00:10:01,05 a number of other things but we're in charge of the medical section and so we 139 00:10:01,06 --> 00:10:05,43 provide some basic medical screenings and as I mentioned there is also other 140 00:10:05,44 --> 00:10:08,87 vendors there that are providing other house services as well that we all 141 00:10:08,88 --> 00:10:15,62 coordinate together to to put out for that bags and the both of you were homeless 142 00:10:15,63 --> 00:10:19,24 can I tell you what did you what did you do how did you know I was 143 00:10:19,25 --> 00:10:21,26 a patient advocate pretty much was 144 00:10:21,27 --> 00:10:26,52 a. Elbel to provide any answers to any questions concerning the services that we 145 00:10:26,53 --> 00:10:31,37 had there that day and shot How did you how did you go up of atoms What did I do 146 00:10:31,38 --> 00:10:36,94 the blood pressure screenings which allowed them to move on to other health care 147 00:10:36,95 --> 00:10:43,74 that was available there. I would ask this wall of you. Know from my own experience 148 00:10:43,75 --> 00:10:47,43 so the volunteer in the past that frequently when you volunteer you find it 149 00:10:48,23 --> 00:10:54,72 personally and Richen ing experience. How old that the did you gain any 150 00:10:54,77 --> 00:10:58,23 insight personal insight from the experience working at home is going to start with 151 00:10:58,24 --> 00:11:05,16 you Shelly I think you well I know personally for myself that day. I have I 152 00:11:05,17 --> 00:11:07,69 to like many people had a view of what 153 00:11:07,70 --> 00:11:12,31 a homeless person looked like until I came in contact with 154 00:11:12,32 --> 00:11:17,15 a nineteen year old girl who wasn't from Virginia but was homeless and here and we 155 00:11:17,16 --> 00:11:19,93 managed we were able to set her up with 156 00:11:19,94 --> 00:11:26,67 a few of the services that were available that day I think I talked with 157 00:11:26,67 --> 00:11:30,89 her now though because I was there for the health of about think I may have talked 158 00:11:30,91 --> 00:11:31,07 with 159 00:11:31,08 --> 00:11:38,13 a half shot I mean up to me how about the any any thing to do you feel 160 00:11:38,14 --> 00:11:42,62 particularly. Probably I would have to agree with Shawn just 161 00:11:42,66 --> 00:11:49,15 a whole different insight on. The different type of you know homeless situations 162 00:11:49,32 --> 00:11:53,99 and the type of people that we came in contact their. We had 163 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:59,81 a lot of personal conversations could have been something as simple as what service 164 00:11:59,82 --> 00:12:05,37 we were offering or where might I get help after the Homeless Connect today if I 165 00:12:05,38 --> 00:12:10,99 wanted to you know look for you know help with I care or vision or anything like 166 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:17,56 that so. OK. And if I may should absolutely that is one of the things I really try 167 00:12:17,57 --> 00:12:22,81 and let volunteers know when you volunteer for the M R C Not only are you joining 168 00:12:22,82 --> 00:12:24,01 a body of people that have 169 00:12:24,02 --> 00:12:28,57 a shared set of interests and public health and serving their community but you get 170 00:12:28,58 --> 00:12:34,07 the opportunity to really get out and know your community to meet different people 171 00:12:34,08 --> 00:12:39,32 to network with different people to work with other organizations that work very 172 00:12:39,33 --> 00:12:42,29 hard do important work but really are focused on 173 00:12:42,30 --> 00:12:46,94 a particular audience and if you're not working with them in serving that need you 174 00:12:46,95 --> 00:12:50,67 may never even know that they exist so it's really an opportunity to get to know 175 00:12:50,68 --> 00:12:55,73 your community much much better and know what's going on and what the issues are 176 00:12:56,14 --> 00:13:02,87 and that event had. To suppression from the Masi Eunice throughout the community 177 00:13:03,58 --> 00:13:08,36 what are the County units with what other mostly units with there and and I know 178 00:13:08,37 --> 00:13:12,79 you guys coordinate the photo there mostly you know whether we have voted in units 179 00:13:12,80 --> 00:13:15,15 from across Hampton Roads for 180 00:13:15,16 --> 00:13:19,38 a couple different reasons we used it as an exercise to work on some of our 181 00:13:19,98 --> 00:13:25,59 disaster plans and we also really appreciated having some of their volunteers come 182 00:13:25,60 --> 00:13:27,89 in and the opportunity to work together I heard from 183 00:13:27,90 --> 00:13:32,45 a lot of volunteers that they enjoyed that and just the extra staffing it was 184 00:13:32,46 --> 00:13:37,38 a big events and so we had our partners from the Virginia Beach M.R.C. 185 00:13:37,42 --> 00:13:38,89 Chesapeake M.R.C. 186 00:13:39,01 --> 00:13:44,21 Western Tidewater which encompasses Smithfield and Franklin and those parts out 187 00:13:44,22 --> 00:13:48,06 there Portsmouth M.R.C. And peninsula M.R.C. 188 00:13:48,51 --> 00:13:55,42 Well those what if you know the city help me with that event you 189 00:13:55,43 --> 00:13:58,40 remember the illuminating good health coalition that we've done 190 00:13:58,91 --> 00:14:02,69 a couple of the best couple of band you live events there must see you has been 191 00:14:02,70 --> 00:14:07,62 there on the each occasion How did you get above with the most recent moments and 192 00:14:07,63 --> 00:14:10,82 limited you know what generations are going to tell us how did you get involved 193 00:14:10,83 --> 00:14:15,04 with it to go. We're always looking for opportunities to really go out and serve 194 00:14:15,05 --> 00:14:18,31 the community you know public health doesn't just happen all within the public 195 00:14:18,32 --> 00:14:23,07 health department lots of great agencies out there working on pieces of public 196 00:14:23,08 --> 00:14:27,50 health so we're always looking for ways that we can partner and really get out 197 00:14:27,51 --> 00:14:31,84 there and help fill needs so when I when I heard of the the coalition that was 198 00:14:31,85 --> 00:14:35,91 behind that it was something we definitely wanted to be part of and it's something 199 00:14:35,92 --> 00:14:39,08 I think our volunteers really enjoy it to the opportunity again to serve 200 00:14:39,09 --> 00:14:44,22 a different demographic and have it more is it wasn't entirely an in-house event 201 00:14:44,23 --> 00:14:50,08 but something that was held very very locally and you know an opportunity for us to 202 00:14:50,09 --> 00:14:53,25 provide different services than we do at Homeless Connect and some of the other 203 00:14:53,26 --> 00:14:57,90 community events that we've Mitchum project will disconnect and the minute to 204 00:14:57,91 --> 00:15:01,48 minute in good health coalition on those two events what are the kind of father of 205 00:15:01,49 --> 00:15:05,63 sodium us again that was in the Baltimore City we do a lot a lot 206 00:15:05,64 --> 00:15:11,01 a lot of things throughout the year with you it's one of Community Health events we 207 00:15:11,02 --> 00:15:11,20 go to 208 00:15:11,21 --> 00:15:16,13 a lot of community health fairs provide screening services that those we have worked 209 00:15:16,14 --> 00:15:20,01 with the kidney early evaluation program when they do their scheduled events in 210 00:15:20,02 --> 00:15:21,66 town the usually have one to two home 211 00:15:21,67 --> 00:15:28,14 a year and kidney disease prevention we have worked with Evy M.S. 212 00:15:28,15 --> 00:15:29,58 We are working with Evy M.S. 213 00:15:29,59 --> 00:15:33,33 Actually and I don't know Sean if you want to add into that we are partnering with 214 00:15:33,34 --> 00:15:38,66 them on. The hopes lecture series so we're working with some of the student 215 00:15:38,67 --> 00:15:44,67 clinicians to provide communication health care communication information to them 216 00:15:45,34 --> 00:15:47,02 via Shawn and another R.N. 217 00:15:47,03 --> 00:15:50,82 That I have that have you know years of experience in how to handle different 218 00:15:50,83 --> 00:15:57,49 health care communication situations. We work with other types of organizations 219 00:15:57,50 --> 00:16:01,11 we're partnering with even Massimo do you for some National Public Health Week 220 00:16:01,12 --> 00:16:03,05 activities just 221 00:16:03,06 --> 00:16:06,84 a lot of things that come along we do some work with some of the other departments 222 00:16:06,85 --> 00:16:11,92 within the Health Department as well as T.V. Epidemiology we are part of the B.M.I. 223 00:16:11,93 --> 00:16:18,89 Project some health promotions we work with you on some things obviously and some 224 00:16:18,90 --> 00:16:23,14 other things with environmental health. And what other kind of projects have you 225 00:16:23,15 --> 00:16:27,61 got what I think the both of you worked on the Senate you both worked on projects 226 00:16:27,62 --> 00:16:29,99 on this connect and I think you went to an end of 227 00:16:30,00 --> 00:16:33,41 a night in good health coalition events as well but on the kind of fuzzy stuff you 228 00:16:33,42 --> 00:16:39,65 worked on. Well I've worked with the public schools assisting 229 00:16:40,19 --> 00:16:45,73 them that was the to be of my project now that was you know sation some of flow and 230 00:16:45,74 --> 00:16:52,28 empty Dappy OK and. I'll stick we do we did that I am I suppose I 231 00:16:52,56 --> 00:16:58,87 am asked and posing am and downtown we do a lot of immunization stuff yeah you do 232 00:16:58,88 --> 00:17:05,79 a lot of stuff in general. So someone just watching what would you say to 233 00:17:05,80 --> 00:17:08,67 them they would personally would have 234 00:17:09,26 --> 00:17:14,79 a rewarding experience to work with us. Because you get the opportunity to meet you 235 00:17:14,80 --> 00:17:19,72 great people I really can't emphasize that enough I am I really love my volunteer 236 00:17:19,73 --> 00:17:24,12 to their hands I can do sort of people they come from 237 00:17:24,13 --> 00:17:29,78 a lot of great backgrounds I learn from them every single day. And I've heard that 238 00:17:29,79 --> 00:17:33,41 from from you guys than from other folks that I've talked to well you know I never 239 00:17:33,42 --> 00:17:34,98 knew that but so and so brought me 240 00:17:34,99 --> 00:17:39,65 a piece of knowledge that I didn't have before and it's the opportunity to really 241 00:17:39,66 --> 00:17:45,10 open your eyes and see what public health is about what. Much like Shawn was 242 00:17:45,11 --> 00:17:50,08 describing you know we all of our visions of what the whole homelessness is we all 243 00:17:50,09 --> 00:17:53,54 of our visions about what public health is and in fact that's it's 244 00:17:53,58 --> 00:17:57,90 a whole world different than most people think it is the opportunity to get in and 245 00:17:57,91 --> 00:18:02,58 get hands on. Time doing different things serving different people serving 246 00:18:02,59 --> 00:18:06,99 different demographics really learning about issues I think is very very rewarding 247 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:07,12 for 248 00:18:07,13 --> 00:18:14,23 a lot of people. One of to ask the both of you we talked about the year 249 00:18:14,24 --> 00:18:19,95 old woman that had just moved into town who had found herself homeless. What can 250 00:18:19,96 --> 00:18:23,48 you either of you or both of you. Cite 251 00:18:23,52 --> 00:18:29,10 a memorable experience of that you follow but call it memorable from your work as 252 00:18:29,11 --> 00:18:34,04 a volunteer with the multitude Marci of the North American reserve corps. I would 253 00:18:34,05 --> 00:18:40,98 have to say. During the vaccination clinics that we we've held We've held them 254 00:18:40,99 --> 00:18:47,98 at schools community events parks. I myself was someone who did not ever 255 00:18:47,99 --> 00:18:48,48 want to get 256 00:18:48,52 --> 00:18:55,35 a flu shot so through education and I hands on experience with my 257 00:18:55,36 --> 00:19:02,18 group. I was educated on. The I would 258 00:19:02,19 --> 00:19:08,87 say. Portman is the get one and I think that was always pretty huge. 259 00:19:09,72 --> 00:19:12,58 That's that's a good thing because those negotiations that's 260 00:19:12,59 --> 00:19:15,76 a bit of education that we always try and get up as a you know there are 261 00:19:15,80 --> 00:19:18,07 a lot of folks who look to see about getting 262 00:19:18,08 --> 00:19:22,28 a flu shot and it's something that should be done you know so show that is there 263 00:19:22,53 --> 00:19:28,32 a particular particularly memorable experience that you go and I think we we also 264 00:19:28,38 --> 00:19:34,84 help out in the shelters during hurricane season yes and I I mean I think just 265 00:19:34,85 --> 00:19:40,43 working together with other people in the community and the shelters and and 266 00:19:40,44 --> 00:19:46,92 getting to know the people that come into the shelters. It was rewarding for me. To 267 00:19:46,93 --> 00:19:50,76 be with the other nurses and the other health care personnel and the other while 268 00:19:50,77 --> 00:19:57,55 interiors who come together to help their community and it was I didn't think I 269 00:19:57,56 --> 00:20:01,75 would enjoy it but I mean what can you enjoy in the middle for hurricane but it's 270 00:20:01,95 --> 00:20:08,71 yes it really makes that critical time now little bit easier when you work with 271 00:20:08,72 --> 00:20:13,81 people like taffy and others that they're at the M.R.C. 272 00:20:13,92 --> 00:20:19,60 To to make it not quite as scary as it could be right now but it's an interesting 273 00:20:19,61 --> 00:20:26,16 time for all of us and that we talked to you about trainings you guys up about 274 00:20:26,17 --> 00:20:30,37 training for their mostly volunteers and the different than the training frequent 275 00:20:30,38 --> 00:20:34,44 accounts of different exercises What can you tell us about the changes and the 276 00:20:34,45 --> 00:20:38,62 exercises that unless you go to use to the suspect there are some require training 277 00:20:38,63 --> 00:20:43,97 that we have folks take that really informs them on the background of the M.R.C. 278 00:20:43,98 --> 00:20:50,62 And how disaster situations work and so forth and that's Fema training that's 279 00:20:50,63 --> 00:20:52,58 available to anybody you don't have to be in the M.R.C. 280 00:20:52,59 --> 00:20:56,48 The incident command system training incident command system National Incident 281 00:20:56,49 --> 00:20:59,81 Management System just give you the background so you know the structure that we're 282 00:20:59,82 --> 00:21:04,50 all operating under we have them take some preparedness training we have them take 283 00:21:04,51 --> 00:21:11,38 some. Mental health preparedness training so that they are. Feel 284 00:21:11,39 --> 00:21:12,77 comfortable operating in 285 00:21:12,78 --> 00:21:16,21 a disastrous situation that's not your normal everyday so you want to make sure 286 00:21:16,22 --> 00:21:20,85 that your volunteers go in prepared. But there's lots of other optional 287 00:21:20,89 --> 00:21:24,70 opportunities that we offer to volunteers that it's it's up to them if they want to 288 00:21:24,71 --> 00:21:30,90 participate but we put it out there such as we have mass casualty incident training 289 00:21:30,91 --> 00:21:36,04 or we called Start Triology that's offered in conjunction with our partners at the 290 00:21:36,57 --> 00:21:42,83 time or even US counsel we offer training in C.P.R. And First Aid B.L.S. 291 00:21:43,52 --> 00:21:48,93 We have training some shared training that we do between the units be 292 00:21:48,94 --> 00:21:55,40 a video conference or poly come and features different things the most current one 293 00:21:55,41 --> 00:21:59,72 is on special needs with dementia and Alzheimer's but we've done some of that 294 00:21:59,73 --> 00:22:04,49 training with epidemiology and our mass to tell the response team and things like 295 00:22:04,50 --> 00:22:09,13 that we have had other specialized training opportunities with the F.B.I. 296 00:22:09,14 --> 00:22:14,94 And leadership training team operations training. Some things that we've done with 297 00:22:14,95 --> 00:22:20,68 a Norfolk special operations team so we're always looking for good opportunities to 298 00:22:20,69 --> 00:22:24,45 work with partners not all training is just about what you're going to do in the 299 00:22:24,46 --> 00:22:25,11 M.R.C. 300 00:22:25,43 --> 00:22:30,17 Some of it is you know the bigger picture of safety and preparedness in real life. 301 00:22:31,35 --> 00:22:35,70 And for anyone to sustain a volunteer English was often that you saw quite 302 00:22:35,71 --> 00:22:39,01 a bit Absolutely and we've recently beginning 303 00:22:39,02 --> 00:22:43,76 a lot of opportunities to the eastern Virginia health care coalition they send out 304 00:22:44,35 --> 00:22:48,39 and they fund and they send out training opportunities so for our medical 305 00:22:48,40 --> 00:22:52,67 professionals there's been more opportunities for them to get some C.E.O.'s C.M.E. 306 00:22:52,71 --> 00:22:57,10 Type credits. Before we went out of time as want to get 307 00:22:57,11 --> 00:23:01,97 a couple more questions for you guys you mentioned school how do you plan to use 308 00:23:01,98 --> 00:23:05,65 your experience with a must see in your future would have been if 309 00:23:05,66 --> 00:23:12,22 a kid in your future endeavors definitely. Patient contact me that that's going to 310 00:23:12,57 --> 00:23:17,70 what I've learned here at M R C deal of public health will definitely help me be 311 00:23:17,71 --> 00:23:21,80 more self-aware with my patient contact. For 312 00:23:21,81 --> 00:23:28,15 a life time. And shot what would you say to someone who is 313 00:23:28,19 --> 00:23:30,45 considering becoming an M.R.C. 314 00:23:30,46 --> 00:23:37,29 Volunteer why I think at this stage of my life and others at this stage of their 315 00:23:37,30 --> 00:23:42,12 lives I think you find that it's really really difficult to find someplace that you 316 00:23:42,13 --> 00:23:46,75 feel that you're really being useful and whether you're medical or 317 00:23:46,76 --> 00:23:51,97 a non medical You can bring what ever you did or what you would learn like to learn 318 00:23:52,55 --> 00:23:53,95 with you to the M.R.C. 319 00:23:53,99 --> 00:24:00,54 Whether it's an administration working communication or you know just just simply 320 00:24:00,55 --> 00:24:06,59 helping us set up for different operations and yeah I think it's good for all of us 321 00:24:06,60 --> 00:24:10,94 to be involved in your community because you really don't know your community until 322 00:24:10,95 --> 00:24:16,85 you see them at all see all aspects the good and the bad so it it's it's been 323 00:24:16,86 --> 00:24:20,30 a good learning experience for me as well to get to know Norfolk Well I think 324 00:24:20,31 --> 00:24:22,86 that's a good pitch for anyone else watching the want to become 325 00:24:22,87 --> 00:24:26,39 a member of the the Norfolk MASI Well blow off whether it involves 326 00:24:26,40 --> 00:24:31,17 a Medical Reserve Corps or any univ throughout have to most. Ladies I have 327 00:24:31,18 --> 00:24:35,34 a surprise for you but simply for you and one of the ways that the mothers of 328 00:24:35,35 --> 00:24:35,96 course helps 329 00:24:35,97 --> 00:24:40,78 a lot of reserve corps as you know the my good fans here at Channel fifteen W.-H. 330 00:24:40,79 --> 00:24:41,68 Are all T.V. 331 00:24:42,31 --> 00:24:47,60 You volunteer for the fund drives that that child of fifteen does and I know we 332 00:24:47,61 --> 00:24:47,74 have 333 00:24:47,75 --> 00:24:51,88 a picture that is way out of there is us Julie because I work with them of about 334 00:24:51,89 --> 00:24:57,91 a cause a book. As. Still not quite sure exactly zero but I do know that I have 335 00:24:57,92 --> 00:24:59,71 a title prestigious title with 336 00:24:59,72 --> 00:25:04,84 a book about your level one volunteer my novel about all the mail the place of My 337 00:25:04,85 --> 00:25:09,80 Love Will fifteen of thirty years of the like that. So thank you for 338 00:25:09,81 --> 00:25:13,30 a full supporting what we do here Tom fifteen an oppressor thing you do with an 339 00:25:13,31 --> 00:25:17,22 offer to publish public health for someone all of those hundreds of people out 340 00:25:17,23 --> 00:25:23,31 there that want to sign up now for the Medical Reserve Corps How can they do that 341 00:25:24,23 --> 00:25:29,64 they can contact me my phone number seven five seven six eight three two seven six 342 00:25:29,65 --> 00:25:34,31 zero or they can e-mail me at Linda got bots at B.T.H. 343 00:25:34,32 --> 00:25:39,96 Dot Virginia DOT go. Either one of those ways I'd be happy to answer any questions 344 00:25:39,97 --> 00:25:44,17 they might have or to direct them how they can fill out their application to get 345 00:25:44,18 --> 00:25:49,10 started we'd love to have you join us please feel free to contact me and in thirty 346 00:25:49,11 --> 00:25:54,75 seconds or less. Always up when they say that thirty seconds or less the B.M.I. 347 00:25:54,76 --> 00:25:58,69 Project on the road the enough money Reserve will pay to put involved in the B.M.I. 348 00:25:58,70 --> 00:25:59,97 Project which is 349 00:25:59,98 --> 00:26:04,52 a project the dead body mass index assessment of public schools about how many 350 00:26:04,53 --> 00:26:07,18 volunteers that you have working with we had about 351 00:26:07,19 --> 00:26:12,27 a dozen volunteers that participated in that went out mostly every day ladies I 352 00:26:12,28 --> 00:26:19,03 want to thank you all so very much in your blue pullovers there for joining us 353 00:26:20,03 --> 00:26:23,36 was great to see all of you and I see you all the time in the office but it's 354 00:26:23,37 --> 00:26:28,12 always great seeing you as well this boss again thank you so much for coming on 355 00:26:28,13 --> 00:26:31,99 health was today and encouraging people to volunteer for the medical as 356 00:26:32,00 --> 00:26:35,61 a call and especially the Norfolk medical and civil with thank you so very much 357 00:26:35,75 --> 00:26:39,54 thank you you know and of course we want to thank you for joining us today when 358 00:26:39,55 --> 00:26:42,62 this edition of Health Watch if you have any questions you can give me 359 00:26:42,63 --> 00:26:47,26 a call that's seven five seven six eight three eight three six again that's seven 360 00:26:47,27 --> 00:26:51,12 five seven six eight three eight eight three six You can also see previous 361 00:26:51,13 --> 00:26:51,51 additions 362 00:26:51,52 --> 00:26:58,05 a health watch online A W W W dot enough. 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