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Healthcare/ Human Service Volunteer - Summer 2017
ORGANIZATION: Hospice Compassus
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1 person is interested
"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."- Seth Godin
Healthcare and human service undergraduate students can play a valuable interdisciplinary treatment role in the Compassus Hospice Summer Student Program. Compassus offers both volunteer and internship opportunities throughout the entire state of New Jersey. By making a commitment of at least 8 hours a week, you will be trained to become an integral member of our hospice team. Your role will include participating in patient assessment, treatment plans, patient care and medical records documentation. Volunteers and interns are trained to provide physical, psychosocial, and spiritual support to the hospice patient and family. Interns visit with our patients to provide socialization, sensory stimulation, creative arts and companionship.
How can you benefit by being a volunteer or intern?
- Build your resume: Volunteer experience shows proof of motivation, commitment, initiative, dependability, and flexibility
- Acquire knowledge about hospice and experience in the healthcare field
- Develop patient interaction skills
- Experience significant opportunities for growth and development- this is not a sit and observe us internship!
We offer you:
- Free training at a location near year anda time based on your convenience
- Free TB testing and background check
- Ongoing educational opportunities
- Social activities and events
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About Hospice Compassus
Location:
4390 Route 130 North, Suite A, Willingboro, NJ 08046, US
Mission Statement
Helping the community to ensure those with life-limiting illnesses face their journey with comfort, dignity and compassion in the warm and loving presence of family, friends and caregivers.
Description
Hospice Compassus serves a nationwide network of community-based hospice programs outside of Nashville in Brentwood TN, with more than 90 programs in the U.S. Hospice care help manage pain and symptoms associated with terminal illness - physical, emotional, social and spiritual. And at the heart of Hospice Compassus, we focus on compassionate options to exhaustive treatments, incorporating the wishes of patients and loved ones in all end of life decisions.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
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18 Butler BlvdBayville, NJ 08721
DATE POSTED
August 15, 2018
SKILLS
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N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training