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12 people are interested
Great Opportunity For Healthcare Students!!
ORGANIZATION: SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE CARE CENTERS INC
Please visit the new page to apply.
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12 people are interested
Description
Use what you have learned in the classroom to help improve the quality of life for 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.
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 for growth and development
Responsibilities of Companion volunteers:
- Contribute to our patients' quality of life
- Attend to Patients' Needs
- Communicate with Nurses by keeping them Up to Date about each Patient visited
- Maintain Patients' Confidentiality
- Travel and Visit patients in facilities in an area near you
- Read to them, give hand massage, assist in life review or memory building
We offer you:
- FREE TB test and MMR Titer
- Extremely flexible assignments (anytime you can give is greatly appreciated)
- Convenient Orientation and FREE training and that fits your schedule
- Receive Internship Credit (if applicable-unpaid)
More opportunities with SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE CARE CENTERS INC
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE CARE CENTERS INC
Location:
CO SPHS 1221MAINSTREET STE213, HOLYOKE, MA 01056, US
Mission Statement
We, Sisters of Providence Health System and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. We are sustained by an unwavering trust in Gods Providence.
Description
Hospice is not a place but rather a way of caring that brings comfort to people at the end of life and offers support and understanding to their families. Hospice Care helps people with life-limiting illnesses remain pain-free, nourished by the support of their loved ones
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
200 Hillside CircleSuite 3West Springfield, MA 01089
DATE POSTED
February 26, 2020
SKILLS
- Massage Therapy
- Data Entry
- Case Work / Management
- Counseling / Mental Health
- Patient Care
- Hospice Care
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- Flexible