How Can I Support Individuals in Need as a Red Cross Volunteer?
Webinar Details & Objectives
This webinar will address Red Cross volunteer opportunities for both licensed health professionals and non-health professionals that support individual and community needs. It will provide how to find in-person and virtual volunteer opportunities and ways that the Red Cross supports the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Future of Nursing report recommendations, including well-being, intersections with social determinants of health, and disaster readiness.
Objectives:
- Describe Red Cross volunteer opportunities for both licensed health professionals and non-health professionals that support needs across the nation.
- Discuss the volunteer role finder resource.
- Identify ways that the Red Cross supports NAM’s report, the Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity.
Speakers
Linda M. MacIntyre, PhD, RN, PHN
Chief Nurse
American Red Cross
As Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross, Linda MacIntyre provides internal leadership for health professional volunteers and provides oversight for Academic Service-Learning. Linda works with senior leaders to provide vision, direction and support for nursing and health in meeting the mission of the Red Cross. Externally, Linda represents the organization and collaborates with major federal and civilian health and nursing organizations, government agencies, universities, hospitals, and other key stakeholders.
Linda worked as a social worker in England. Her nursing experience includes 5 years as a hemodialysis staff nurse, serving as Director of Community Health and Youth for the Red Cross Greater Kansas City Chapter and teaching community health nursing as full-time faculty at University of California, San Francisco. Linda volunteered for several years and served as the National Chair of Nursing for the Red Cross.
Linda has a degree in theology from Westminster College in Oxford, England, a nursing degree from Texas Christian University and a PhD in nursing from University of California, San Francisco.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.