Recommended
More Related Content
Similar to The Mercy
Similar to The Mercy (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
The Mercy
- 1. Julie H. Nguyen, PSIV University of California, San Diego February 22, 2010
- 4. PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP 2008 Action Plan San Diego DEP - 01 MAY ARR - 25 SEP Pearl Harbor Westbound: 8-12 May Eastbound: 15-18 Sep Singapore 02 -07Jul (01 - 06 Jul US) Nha Trang, VN 11 Day Mission 19 - 29 Jun (18-28 Jun US) Dili, TL 13 Day Mission 12 - 25 Jul (11-24 Jul US) Darwin, AS 27 - 31 Jul (26-30 Jul US) As of 04 APR 08 Port Moresby, PP 13 Day Mission 04 - 17 Aug (03-16 Aug US) Guam 23 - 25 May (22-24 May US) 03 – 06 Sep (02 - 05 Sep US) Manila, RP 15 - 17 Jun (14-16 Jun US) Chuuk State, FM 10 Day Mission 22 Aug - 01 Sep (21-31 Aug US) Cotabato, RP 14 Day Mission 29 May - 12 Jun (28 May-11 Jun US) Samar, RP 14 Jun (13 Jun US)
- 12. MEDCAPS: Waiting
- 23. Touching lives…
- 24. Touching lives…
- 25. Touching lives…
- 28. Thank you for the great adventure!
- 30. Questions?
Editor's Notes
- A little background: the Pacific Partnership is a humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia intended to build collaborative relationships by providing engineering, civic, medical and dental assistance to the region; I participated in the mission for 6 weeks of the the 5 months that the mission lasted for.
- This was the Mercy, also know as the United states Naval Ship. I lived on this ship for a total of 6 weeks.
- Pacific Partnership is a four-month humanitarian mission to Southeast Asia intended to build collaborative relationships by providing engineering, civic, medical and dental assistance to the region
- : first time ever for USNS ship to have student pharmacists come on to help
- First, I want to show you all what the pharmacy looks like on a ship. This is the oupatient area, where we did lots of counting
- This is a picture of the inpatient room.
- Rolling shelves in the pharmacy. Where the medications are stored. Similar to the ones seen in hospitals.
- 2 iv hoods. We prepareiv bags, mainly for patients admitted on the ship.
- As I mentioned earlier, the main purpose of the Pacific partnership was to provide medical services in various countries. So the main program to achieve this was through MEPDCAPs, which stands for medical civic action programs.
- WAITING IN LINE TO GET SEEN.
- Patients come here last. Come with prescriptions with highlighted drugs (prevent patients from circling additional drugs). Had to use caution tape to keep patients from entering. Some very inpatient.
- Adult medicine
- Pediatric care
- So more kids we saw and treated at the MEDCAPs
- Dentistry departement; I just want to point out that at these MEDCAPs, most of the time there was no electricity, and had limited access to medical equipment. So you can see that they use a flashlight. And the patient is also using a half-cut water bottle if spit out excess saliva and blood since there was (saliva vacuum).
- There was also pptometry
- Physical therapy
- Remodel health clinics—added plumbing, rebuild roofs, Worked on runned down schools
- Dogs, cats, wallabees, pigs, horses, water buffulos, birds U.S. Army Capt. Rose Grimm injects a water buffalo with a vaccination. Pacific Partnership veterinary civic action programs provide examinations and vaccinations against rabies and worms.
- These are a few pics of people I cross paths with during this mission. Some will forever be imprinted in my memory.
- First time this child walked in 7 years. Was in a fire which caused burning and scarring w/o proper medical treatment, was in wheelchair. With help of the mercy’s physical therapy department and surgery, he was able to walk again.
- Admiral willerd, in charge of al the pacific fleet (japan, US west coast, alaska, SE asia, etc)
- Here is a picture of the amazing pharmacy crew that I worked on the Mercy. It was taken right after the Vietnam’s mission so everyone’s sporting their straw hats.
- And with that I went to end by saying that thank you for allowing students like me to broaden our eduction by not limiting it to the standard of of care. I am excited for the fourth years who will be going on rotations in VN, I just know you guys will have such an amazing experience! Thank you. And Here is Lannie….