Volunteer Travel Opportunities
The volunteer opportunities listed below are available through various organizations and are not funded or specifically endorsed by ONS.
Experience China firsthand with your nursing peers from China and around the world through the People to People Citizen Ambassador Oncology Nursing Delegation. Join delegation leader, Margaret Barton-Burke, PhD, RN, November 27-December 8 and gain an understanding of cancer care in China. Build relationships with the Chinese Nursing Association's Oncology Nursing Committee and oncology nurses by exploring the cancer trajectory, comparing cancer-care systems, and sharing nursing models of care, including advanced nursing practice.
Health Volunteers Overseas
HVO is an organization committed to providing teaching and training to health professionals in developing countries. The success of our programs is dependent on the participation of skilled professionals who donate their time and expertise to train their colleagues around the world. We are so pleased to be sponsored by ASCO and now able to offer training programs in the oncology specialty.
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, July 31–August 6, 2011
ONS presenter, Lisa Kennedy Sheldon, tells her story
Information regarding the 2012 trips to Honduras and Ethiopia
Ethiopia Program
HVO Volunteer Opportunities - for a complete list, visit www.hvousa.org or call 202-296-0928.
Information on nursing education opportunities within HVO
Oncology-specific opportunities
KenyaRelief.org
Our organization kenyarelief.org an Alabama based ministry is looking for a few ENT surgery nurses to join us in Kenya for an ENT surgery clinic. The team will perform general medicine and thyroid and parotid surgeries, and needs two experienced ENT circulators and two scrubs and would consider a NP with endocrine expertise. You can learn more about Kenyarelief.org at our web site kenyarelief.org.
The dates are October 13-23, 2011, and the team will finish with two full days of Safari in Kenya.
Please respond to:
Steve James CRNA
President/Founder
Kenyarelief.org
sjames@kenyarelief.org