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The Mobile Nurse Volunteer Program
Are you a nurse or a nursing student and thinking of volunteering in a developing country? Do you want to have a life-changing experience working closely with local professionals to change the life of underprivileged people? Are you interested to experience the amazing cultural and natural splendors of Ghana?
Ghana is indeed a great African country to volunteer and explore its natural and cultural wonders. You get to immerse yourself in amazing Ghanian cultures, history and witness several species of wildlife. The country also greets you with many mesmerizing cities, national parks, beaches and so on.
Despite of its natural and cultural splendors, Ghana is still a developing country, and health and medical care facilities are still in miserable situation. High Blood Pressure and diseases related to this have become a silent killer among most people in Ghana in recent times, becoming the second highest killer after malaria. People residing in rural areas are most affected due to illiteracy, poverty and lack of sufficient healthcare. This is where your help comes in. You will join as a mobile nurse and actively participate in creating awareness against these diseases.
When you join this mobile nurse volunteer program in Ghana, you will become a front-line health worker. You will actively visit selected rural villages and offer health services for a minimum of two weeks. The mobile nurse volunteers work in collaboration with at least one Ghanaian health workers who are well informed about the selected village of operation.
If you want to directly impact the lives of people and gain invaluable experience, contact Global Crossroad today for more information about this selfless opportunity!
Volunteer Responsibilities & Impacts
The Mobile Nurse Program is the summarized name for different outreach programs that have been put in place to combat trending sicknesses and diseases. These diseases are the major cause of death amongst the Ghanaians in recent days. This program has been put together as the first line of defense against diseases that occur due to illiteracy, poverty, and lack of adequate healthcare facilities.
When you join this volunteer program in Ghana, your will visit various rural villages and offer needed health services becoming a front-line health worker. You will avert needless death by getting to these people’s homes and screening them for free, giving emergency interventions where necessary, and immediately referring critical cases to the nearest hospital. Your roles and responsibilities include:
- Door to door visits
- Checking the blood pressure in each household and documenting
- Repeating the process every other day for 3 times and giving a recommendation
- Referring patients with high blood pressure to the nearest hospital
- Performing basic first aid activities such as cleaning and dressing sores
- Educating members of each household on the dangers of high blood pressure, hygiene, water and sanitation, washing of hands, family planning, malaria, sexual and reproductive health, oral hygiene
- Distributing condoms, treated mosquito nets, worm expellers, toothbrushes, toothpastes etc.
Prohibitions for Volunteers:
- Go into the community without an interpreter.
- Prescribe Drugs for patients to use in the absence of a qualified doctor.
- Give any kind of drug to patients apart from vitamins supplements, worm expellers, insect repellents.
- Give injections of any kind to patients.
- Undertake any kind of surgical procedure or midwifery procedures.
- First Aid procedures can be undertaken in order to sustain the patient on his travel to the hospital.
- Any issues discovered by the nurse should be referred to the General Hospital for attention.
Skills and Qualifications
We highly encourage volunteers with background in healthcare and medical to participate in this program. However, volunteers with no health experience can still participate in the program and can as AIDES to help the mobile nurse in documenting and distributing medications. Other skills and qualifications needed are:
- Public Health Knowledge.
- Basic Health Care Knowledge.
- Accurate Knowledge on Blood Pressure Readings
- Knowledge in the use of the Blood Pressure Machine, Thermometer and Stethoscope.
- Ability to perform basic first aid procedures eg wound cleaning and wound dressing.
- Knowledge on health, water and sanitation and hygiene
- Must be willing to work in the rural areas among the poor and lower social class.
Volunteers should bring the following medical equipment themselves:
- Blood Pressure Machine
- Thermometer
- Stethoscope
- First Aid Kit: Hand sanitizers, methylated spirit, gauze, bandages, plasters etch
- Chocolates and candies for the little children
While working in this mobi-nurse volunteer program in Ghana, every day will be full of fun and excitement and present you with lots of opportunities to get to know and interact with local people who are incredibly friendly and will welcome you with open arms.
First Day: On your first day of volunteering in Ghana, you will be escorted to your placement by a local coordinator and introduced to the local mobile nurses and staffs you’ll be working with. During this day you’ll get to know what your precise duties will be while volunteering.
Weekdays: Your work as a volunteer begins on the second day of the project, and while your exact tasks will vary from day to day, a typical day will follow this outline:
6.00 to 7.30 AM: Early in the morning you will greet the day with a delicious home-cooked breakfast together with your host family and fellow guests.
7.45 AM: Once you’ve enjoyed breakfast and some lovely conversation with your hosts, it’s time to head to your placement for a rewarding day of nursing work.
12.00 PM: Around noon you’ll have a lunch break, and this is the time to rest and a chance to get to know the rest of the medical and nursing staff better.
3.00 PM: After a full day of volunteering, work usually ends around this time and the rest of your day is your free time that you can spend as you wish, exploring the local area, spending time with your colleagues or heading back home to your host family.
6.45 PM : At the end of the day you can settle in with your host family in their cozy home and enjoy a delicious home-cooked dinner, learning more about their customs in the process.
Medical Volunteer Ghana: Dates and Fees
Dates
All volunteer programs in Ghana start every Monday of each month. However, if there is travel constrains, you can start any project on any day.
Fees:
Global Crossroad is committed to offering the most affordable and highest quality Ghana volunteer trips. We strive to keep our costs low. The humanitarian side of the business is our passion.
Global Crossroad's volunteer program in Ghana application and registration fee cost US $299. The application fee covers the cost of advertising, program promotion, and office expenses (rent, utilities, and staff salaries in USA office).
In addition to the application fee, you are required to pay a weekly program fee. You will pay your weekly fee directly to the country coordinator, who in turn will allocate it to your host family, project and other in-country support we offer to our volunteers. This way, the fees that you pay will benefit those who rightfully deserve them, and not for company profit.
| Duration | Nursing Project |
|---|---|
| 1 Week | - |
| 2 Weeks | $400 |
| 3 Weeks | $550 |
| 4 Weeks | $700 |
| 5 Weeks | $850 |
| 6 Weeks | $1,000 |
| 7 Weeks | $1,150 |
| 8 Weeks | $1,300 |
| 9 Weeks | $1,450 |
| 10 Weeks | $1,600 |
| 11 Weeks | $1,750 |
| 12 Weeks | $1,900 |
Mandatory comprehensive travel insurance $3.49 a day »
How your fee is allocated?
Airport pick up & transfer $50
Medical/HIV/AIDS volunteer will pay 25 dollars/week suppliment
Language and Culture program fee $250
Summer volunteer and adventure (4 weeks include Travel) $1899
Program fees cover:
- Accommodation (volunteer house or host family)
- Food (local food 3 times a day)
- Program Orientation
- In-country support
- Personalized project
- Pre-departure information
- Certificate of completion
- Fundraising ideas and letters
- Discount for returning volunteers
Program fees exclude:
- Visas
- Airfare
- Personal expenses on soft drinks and foo
- Daily transportation
- Airport return transfer
The volunteer trip in Ghana program fees will cover expenses that will begin on the first day of the program (usually the first or third Monday of the month) to the last day of the program. If you arrive before the first day of the program or you decide you stay beyond your program’s last day, you will be responsible for the additional expenses, which would typically be around $30 a day for room and meals at a hostel.
Accommodation and Meal
During your stay in Ghana, you will stay with a wonderful and kind host family that will open their home to you and welcome you as one of their own. All our host families make great effort to make sure you feel completely safe, comfortable and happy.
Free Time and Weekend Exploration
While you will volunteer to save the lives of those most in need, you will also have a great opportunity to explore beautiful Ghana. During the week you will get to spend your evenings as you wish, and your weekends can be spent travelling or taking tours anywhere in the country.
Read more about your free time and weekend exploration options in Ghana
Safety and In Country Support
Your personal safety and security is our greatest concern. With our vast experience organizing volunteer trips for more than 20,000 volunteers, we have developed incredibly strong security practices as well as a large and skilled network of in country support staff that will always be available to help you with anything you may need.
Medical Volunteer Ghana: FAQs
Arrival and departure
You’ll have to fly into Kotoka International Airport in Accra for our medical Ghana volunteer work program. You should provide proper flight details to our in-country coordinator before boarding the flight to Ghana, to ensure that our local staffs can arrange airport pickup on time.Ensure you send us your complete final flight information once your ticket processing is completed. GCR offers airport pick-up services to international volunteers. For our local representative to get to the airport on time, you must provide correct flight details. Any last-minute flight changes must be communicated immediately.
Kindly be informed that Global Crossroad does not provide drop off services after the completion of medical volunteer projects but your in-country coordinator will assist you to arrange for transportation to the airport.
Visa
Anyone planning to work in our medical volunteering project in Ghana must obtain a tourist visa from the embassy of Ghana prior to their departure. Depending on your nationality, on arrival visa is available in Ghana. Also, you can extend Ghanaian visa by visiting the immigration office. Just click this link over here to learn more about Ghana’s visa policies.
Vaccination
To volunteer in Ghana, vaccinations for diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, malaria, yellow fever, measles-mumps-rubella (MMR), rabies, typhoid, hepatitis A, meningitis (Meningococcal disease), hepatitis B, polio vaccine, varicella (chickenpox) are necessary.
Don’t forget to consult with your local doctor before taking these vaccinations for your medical volunteer trip to Ghana.
You can visit this to learn in detail about these vaccinations.
Are there any specific details relevant for the volunteer opportunity with the medical program in Ghana that I should be aware of before applying
One must consider upon applying, that Ghana is not as highly developed as other countries. The nurses and doctors don't rely on the complex devices when saving lives. You must be therefore ready to adapt to the onsite situation and be willing to learn. The experience you might receive, whilst saving lives hands-on in Ghana, will help you throughout your career.
Why Medical Volunteer Ghana?
Helps expand your professional network
Participating in this project, you will get to expand your professional network and build relationships with hospital employees, patients and visitors while volunteering in this project. This will greatly benefit you in securing a good job position in the medical field.
Opportunity to perform basic medical and healthcare procedures
Taking part in volunteering in medical Ghana project allows you to get a sense of real life medical situations where they can be asked to perform certain basic yet important medical procedures to treat sick patients on a daily basis.
Educate locals by running educational programs about health issues
Participating in this project gives you the opportunity to educate locals on different health topics such as personal hygiene, nutrition, sanitation, disease prevention, basic care and so on. Doing so will greatly improve the odds securing a quality life with less medical problems to deal with.
Gain valuable work experience in a hospital
If your interests are in clinical areas, you have to gain some work experience in order to be successful in your professional field. As a medical volunteer in Ghana, you will spend most of your time treating sick patients while assisting medical staffs and professionals.
Other Volunteer Opportunities Available In Ghana
No matter your passion or interests, we offer a variety of life-changing, volunteer programs in Ghana such as
Teaching english,
Volunteering with orphaned children,
HIV/AIDS volunteer program and much more.
For more information on our exciting programs in Ghana, contact us today.
Medical Volunteer Opportunities in Other Countries
Other than this medical program in Ghana, GCR offers great medical volunteer opportunities in many countries cross the world.
Check out some of out most popular medical programs below.