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21 people are interested
Great Opportunity for Healthcare Students & Interns with Hospice!
ORGANIZATION: AccentCare Hospice
Please visit the new page to apply.
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21 people are interested
Use what you have learned in the classroom to help improve the quality of life for our hospice patients. Utilize free time to be compassionate and genuine in order to reduce terminally ill patients' loneliness and isolation. Please help us keep our patients happy and comfortable as they reach the end of their life due to a variety of health conditions including cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc. This is a great opportunity for unpaid Internships for college students.
Please call 774-567-8914 and speak to Kim Urquhart for more info!
How can you benefit by being a volunteer?
Build your resume, Volunteer experience shows proof of motivation, commitment, initiative, dependability, and flexibility.
Develop interpersonal skills.
Increase meaning and purpose in your life.
Experience significant opportunities of growth and personal development.
Responsibilities of Companion (Direct) Volunteer:
Attend to patients' social needs by decreasing their isolation.
Contribute to our patients' quality of life.
Commitment of 2-4 hours minimum per week to visit with patients
Communication with Hospice team.
Maintain patients' confidentiality.
Travel and visit patients near you.
Read to them, play music, conduct life reviews, memory building, provide companionship.
We offer you:
FREE TB testing,drug screening and background check
Flexible patient assignments
FREE Hospice Orientation and ongoing education
Receive Internship Credit (if applicable - unpaid)
- Portuguese, Spanish, other languages speaking a plus!
If you have experience a personal loss within the last 12 months, it is requested you wait at least 12 months from your loss before volunteering in hospice.
(Formally Steward Hospice)
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About AccentCare Hospice
Location:
275 Martine St., Suite 109, Fall River, MA 02723, US
Mission Statement
At AccentCare Home Health & Hospice, we are committed to providing quality health care in the comfort of your own home as everyone likes to be at home. Recovering in your home can promote a faster recovery and improves the quality of life for both patients and caregivers. Our services range from home health care to hospice care as well as private care services. Our specially-trained clinicians are thoroughly screened and receive continuing education to uphold the valued expertise in their fields. Along with providing high quality, state-of-the-art health care services to our patients, we truly care about our patients and their families. This all-encompassing compassion is felt in everything we do.
Description
At AccentCare Hospice, we are committed to providing quality health care in the comfort of your own home as everyone likes to be at home. Recovering in your home can promote a faster recovery and improves the quality of life for both patients and caregivers.
Our services range from home health care to hospice care as well as private care services. Our specially-trained clinicians are thoroughly screened and receive continuing education to uphold the valued expertise in their fields.
Along with providing high quality, state-of-the-art health care services to our patients, we truly care about our patients and their families. This all-encompassing compassion is felt in everything we do.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Multiple locations Bridgewater, MA 02324
DATE POSTED
February 4, 2022
SKILLS
- Veteran Care
- Hospice Care
- People Skills
- Bereavement Support
- Relationship Building
- Healthcare
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- 2-4 hours per week
- Medical Screening, drug screening, background check and completion of the Hospice Training