Vigil Volunteer

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ORGANIZATION: Amedisys Hospice of York

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Vigil Volunteers - Amedisys Hospice offers volunteers who are present with a patient in their last moments. As a vigil volunteer, you will provide on-call support to patients and families in the last 24-48 hours of life.

Skills:

  • Need to be comfortable with silence.

  • Create a calming and peaceful environment for patients who are actively dying/imminent (i.e. play music, talk with a patient who is not responsive)

  • Provide gentle touch to the hand, back, arms, shoulder or hold hands

  • Interpersonal skills: Be a support system for family and friends near, and post, death of a patient

As a vigil volunteer, please remember the following:

  • You must be comfortable with, and able to talk about, death and dying

  • During a vigil, a patient could pass in front of you

  • Amedisys Hospice provides hospice in different settings. A vigil may be held at: a patients home, a skilled nursing facility or assisted living facility

  • Vigils take place in the last hours before death, which may be during the day, night, and sometimes overnight.

Requirements:

  • Be able to provide own transportation.

  • Complete volunteer and orientation.

  • Complete background check (free)

  • Tuberculosis tests (free)

*Out of respect for the grieving process, if you are a surviving family member, we encourage you to wait a minimum of 13 months following the patient's death to serve as a direct care volunteer or in public relations activities.

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About Amedisys Hospice of York

Location:

984 Loucks Road York, Pa 17404, Suite 1, york, PA 17404, US

Mission Statement

Our mission is to share our passion for improving quality of life through innovative healthcare, one person, one family, and one community at a time.

Description

Hospice is a program of supportive services for terminally ill patients and their families. An interdisciplinary team of nurses, social workers, home health aides, spiritual care coordinators, therapists and volunteers work together to provide individualized services. All team members are trained in providing emotional support to the patient and family. The hospice team goes to the patient, whether they are living in private homes, nursing homes, hospitals or assisted living communities.

Hospice neither prolongs life nor hastens death. Rather, its goal is to affirm life and encourage the patient to maintain control over decisions that affect his or her quality of life. Support is available 24 hours a day. Hospice care is ready to meet the everchanging physical, emotional, and spiritual needs experienced by the patient and family during the dying and bereavement process.

CAUSE AREAS

Crisis Support
Health & Medicine
Seniors
Crisis Support, Health & Medicine, Seniors

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

York, Adams, and Cumberland CountiesYork, Gettysburg, Camp Hill areas, PA 17408

(40.23981,-76.91998)
 

SKILLS

  • People Skills
  • Relationship Building

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Driver's License Needed
  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 18
  • Orientation or Training
  • Unspecified, On Call, Volunteer selects schedule
  • 2 Step PPD (tuberculosis testing) - costs paid by Amedisys Hospice of York

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