California nurses volunteer to go to Haiti

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Hundreds of Southland doctors and nurses were preparing today to travel to Haiti to aid relief efforts. More than 400 nurses in Southern California have volunteered to travel there in response to an appeal from National Nurses United, a 150,000-member nurses union.

More than 4,500 nurses have volunteered nationally, a union spokesman said.

Nurse Lunie Dorcin of Lancaster is expected to be among the first group of about 40 nurses sent this weekend. Dorcin, 33, a registered nurse at Antelope Valley Hospital, grew up and trained in Haiti before moving to the U.S. in 2004.

“This is my country,” she said. “I can help them.”

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