This is my first post ever as a blogger and I'm very excited to blog monthly updates about my involvement in the Tulane University Masters of Pharmacology program and the New Orleans volunteer community! For these first few weeks of volunteering, I have been participating in Habitat for Humanity's Restore store and at Touro Infirmary's Emergency Department. Here's a short video about Restore, for those who are unfamiliar with this amazing program:
My fellow graduate students and I have visited Restore twice now and both experiences have been eye opening and extremely rewarding. We helped out by mostly helping the employees organize the merchandise in the store so that customers could find exactly what they wanted and with less confusion. More recently, I have started volunteering at a local hospital, Touro Infirmary. Touro is New Orleans' only faith-based, not-for-profit hospital. There, I am stationed in the Emergency Department; my duties are to assist the doctors, nurses and technicians with various tasks ranging from switching out bedding to making deliveries to the lab located within the hospital. I usually volunteer every Sunday at Touro but if I can add an extra day during the week to volunteer that would be ideal! As well as getting to experience volunteering in a hospital setting, I also am gaining experience in shadowing the ED staff which will no doubt prove beneficial when I apply to Medical School this upcoming summer.
I'm looking forward to volunteering at the Restore store and Touro Infirmary more in the future and continuing to give back to the amazing city of New Orleans!
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