Nurses who enroll in the registry are instructed to enroll in their local Medical Reserve Corp.
The Medical Reserve Corps are partnering with the local public health authority or other organizations in the community to use volunteers to assist with vaccines.
Another resource being considered are nursing schools.
Leaders at Baylor University s Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas said they ve been contacted by five DFW area hospitals for extra manpower and are prepared to send up to 200 of their experienced nursing students to help.
Students from UT Tyler School of Nursing and College of Pharmacy are also assisting in vaccinations efforts in East Texas.
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In Nassau County, doctors and nurses are answering the call for help by volunteering their time.
It would appear as though Dr. Harvey Katz the vaccinator has been doing this his whole life, putting patients like 98-year-old Morton Singer more at ease with humor as he gives Singer and others the lifesaving COVID vaccine.
However, what his patients may not realize is Dr. Katz is actually a podiatrist who works in Manhattan. I would ve taken my shoe off, if I knew that, vaccine recipient Ron Hirsch said. But he did a phenomenal job. It was a painless injection.