Overview of Organisation
A just Global community can be defined as the wider community that is sustainable compassionate with optimal health and development provided all across the globe equality (Kohli, & Agarwala, 2017).
This digital poster will represent how nurses as a healthcare professional with the help of not for profit organizations can help bring forth the realization of a more just Global community.
The chosen organization for the paper is Red Cross, a humanitarian organization that has developed a network of humanitarian aid provided to the vulnerable communities across the world.
The primary focus of the poster is on Australian Red cross, established in the year of 1914, the range of services including both humanitarian aid and community charitable services, and the success it has achieved while also establishing a just global community, humanitarian and compassionate (Redcross.org.au, 2018).
Overview of Organisation:
The Vision and Mission of Red Cross is human dignity, peace, safety, and wellbeing for all.
Their purpose is associated with developing a better society based on people helping other people in crisis (Redcross.org.au, 2018).
The aims and objectives include supporting in empowering people and communities at the times of crisis or vulnerability, and reducing suffering across Australia and internationally, through mobilizing the power of humanity.
This is an organization that provides support or assistance to people before and after disaster strikes.
They provide assistance to the victims suffering from wars and conflicts and also advocate and promote the laws of warfare. They also provide assistance to the most vulnerable community members regardless of their circumstances.
The fundamental principles based on which the organization runs includes humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary services, unity, and most importantly universality.
The organization is committed to reconciliation and development of a community that is built on trust, respect, and understanding between the members of the wider community (Redcross.org.au, 2018).
The organization takes pride in the history, culture, and unique achievements of the indigenous or ethnic communities all around the world, especially in Australia. They respect and explore the shared history, culture, and achievements of the aboriginal or indigenous people living in Australia, providing support and assistance to them in each and every aspect of their life.
They provide a variety of services including community service, emergency help service, and specialized support system for migrants in transition.
The community service includes supported assistance provided to older people, NDIS services, mental health services, homelessness services, supportive assistance for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, support for children and families in need, for young people, and for people in the justice system.
The emergency services include preparing for emergencies, recovering from emergency crises, and resources to help.
Migrants translation services include emergency relief, family link restoration services, detention centre support, human trafficking victim support, Asylum seekers support, and hub visiting (Redcross.org.au, 2018).
Red Cross is an organization that has been in practice for over hundred years and it has representatives doing social work on the foundation of humanity and compassion across each and every nation to vulnerable communities and victims in any crisis, their services can be accessed at even the remotest corners of the world.
Contribution to the Common Good
Considering Australian Red Cross movement, the organization has now developed into a huge network for providing humanitarian aid and support.
In last recent year itself, the Australian Red Cross has provided comfort and support to the elderly Australians. They have given support to the children and families both in Australia and internationally that have been suffering from crisis and disaster including warfare.
Elaborating further, the bushfire that affected Victoria and New South Wales destroying more than 40 towns and during the Tathra fires as well, Australian Red Cross team helped the Bega evacuation centre, supporting the residence and providing comfort, food, medicine, and even shelter to close to 58000 people.
In terms of disaster relief the organization has provided resources, support and comfort to war and disaster victims both nationally and internationally.
Considering the Global common good, Red cross Australia has established collaborative partnership in 14 Asia Pacific countries to increase capacity for support for the vulnerable communities and respond to the recovery needs of victims suffering from disaster and humanitarian crises. (Nswnma.asn.au, 2018).
They provide spontaneous and active support in disasters and crisis situations 100 % of the time to minimize the social psychological emotional and economic impact of disaster or crisis.
The organization has also been advocating and promoting the need for enhanced investments in the disaster risk reduction and community resilience to combat any crisis situations more effectively and spontaneously. In the last year the organization has achieved the success of increasing 4-fold national investment by government corporate and other not for profit organizations in the disaster risk reduction and community resilience.
In the event of the catastrophic drought in East Africa, the organization has provided resources and comfort 2 millions of people that have been facing starvation. With support from the local authorities, they have successfully established mobile clinic stopped with medicines vaccinations supplements and stopped by nurse doctor and midwife two villages across east Africa twice a month to get treatment and support.
Hence, the contribution of the organization for the common good of national and international crisis disaster situations for vulnerable people in need of comfort and support is remarkable and as per the 6 goals set by the organization is a part of their 2020 support strategy, they are set to build a just global community that has the foundation of humanity and compassion. (Redcross.org.au, 2018).
For nursing professionals, there is a varied range of opportunities for the nurses to collaborate and cooperate with their organizations and provides national and international support services to the victims in disaster or humanitarian crisis.
The nurses are the primary supportive network which has helped the Red Cross Organization provide community services voluntarily across the world for close to a century.
Nurses can either provide direct voluntary humanitarian or support service through the Red Cross, or they can also enroll themselves in the Nursing Federations, a nursing enterprises operated autonomously or semi- autonomously by the Red Cross (Redcross.org, 2018).
The organization also provides the nurse volunteers to become a leader in their community and provide humanitarian aid and support to those in need. Along with their also several nursing student scholarships, such as Jane Delano student nurse scholarship that provides the nursing students the opportunity to get associated with Red Cross; honoring the memory of Jane Delano, the principal organizer of Red Cross nursing services leading more than 20000 nurses that served the world war 1 period.
Along with that there also National Student Nurse Associations or NSNA, allowing nurses across the globe to participate and involve in the support given by Red Cross.
Australian Red Cross Blood Services also has partnership with Australian Nursing Federation that allows the members of the federation to participate in the humanitarian support services organized and governed by the Red Cross and provide support nationally and internationally for the common good of people.
Hence, there are a lot of opportunities provided by the organization for the nurses to collaborate in co-operate with them providing humanitarian aid to the victims and vulnerable communities all across the world.
This not for profit organization has been attempting to build a global community that joins hands with each other and supports the vulnerable and tormented victims of any traumatic event for more than hundred years.
As a nursing professional myself I believe it is our moral responsibility to join hands with the noble cause of Red Cross and help them achieve this dream of a just global community which is established on the foundation of humanity and support devoid of any malice or discrimination (Nswnma.asn.au, 2018).
References:
Kohli, H. S., & Agarwala, R. (Eds.). (2017). The world in 2050: Striving for a more just, prosperous, and harmonious global community. Oxford University Press.
Nswnma.asn.au (2018). Australian_Red_Cross_Blood_Service_Nursing_Enterprise_Agreement. [Online]. Retrieved from https://www.nswnma.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Australian_Red_Cross_Blood_Service_Nursing_Enterprise_Agreement_New_South_Wales_and_Australian_Capital_Territory_2014.pdf. [Accessed on 30th Nov]
Redcross.org (2018). Opportunities for Nursing Students. [Online]. Retrieved from https://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/nursing-health/opportunities-for-nursing-students.html. [Accessed on 30th Nov]
Redcross.org.au (2018). Care and comfort in a natural disaster. [Online]. Retrieved from https://www.redcross.org.au/campaigns/the-power-of-good/care-and-comfort-in-a-natural-disaster. [Accessed on 30th Nov]
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