SPOKANE -- Thousands of people are rushing to Haiti to help care for victims of the earthquake, including a Harrison, Idaho nurse who has plenty of experience providing aid to devastated regions of the world.

Deanna King volunteers with Medical Teams International. She is hoping to fly out of Spokane International Airport Thursday morning with her medical supplies in hand.

Flights into Haiti have been hard to come by. King says the first commercial flight she booked canceled the flight so she had to book a chartered airplane. The flight is still questionable though, since many of the landing areas in Haiti were ruined in the earthquake.

“They might be landing in Port Au Prince, but maybe the Dominican Republic,” King explained.

King is a nurse who has had plenty of experience providing aid to people in war or disaster zones.

“I've been to Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia after the tsunami, many parts of Africa, Cosovo...” King said.

The sights and sheer need of the people in those regions and now Haiti can be overwhelming, she admits, but King says you just have to focus on why you're there – to help the people.

“I think it's going to be fairly similar to the [Indonesian] tsunami, lots of destruction, buildings, bodies, that sort of thing,” King said. “I am ready, I guess after I've done it for a while you just take one step at a time.”

King learned of the Haiti earthquake while working out at the gym. She saw the news on the television and promptly told Medical Teams International that she'll be going to Haiti - no questions asked.

“I'll be there for a month, I have the nursing skills and I have the experience so it's a good fit for me,” King said.

She'll board a flight Thursday morning, but where she'll be in Haiti and what she'll be doing is all up in the air. There are a lot of unknowns, but King says no matter where she's put in Haiti she'll be able to do what she does best, provide medical care.

“Emotionally you just figure I'm going in to help people as much as they can, I can't concentrate on the disaster, I have to concentrate on the people I see,” King said.

King says Medical Teams International will also be sending enough medical supplies to Haiti to help 12,000 people.

Medical Teams International is taking donations for Haiti relief efforts, just click here.