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14 people are interested
Family Training Ambassador Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
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14 people are interested
A perfect opportunity for a PT, OT, or pre-med student, it involves a clinical setting with patient interaction!
The family members of Magee patients come in once or twice during the patient's stay to attend therapies and to meet with their loved one's nurse for training in care needs.
Family Training Ambassadors accompany families through this process. They would serve as both tour guides and reassurers. They will be supervised by Magee Patient Care Managers.
Ambassadors would do the following:
- Meet the family in the lobby on the day of teaching and accompany them up to the unit.
- Connect the family with the patient's nurse, and facilitate scheduling a time that day to meet with the nurse
- Accompany the family to the scheduled teaching sessions (usually an hour each of OT, PT and speech, then half an hour of nursing).
- If there is lunch in the middle of the schedule, accompany the family to lunch and then back to the unit
- Help with clerical needs, copying, and other duties as assigned
- Assist in the day room with patient activities
- Observe the teaching, so not in an "active" role the entire time
More opportunities with Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
Location:
1513 Race St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, US
Mission Statement
The mission of Magee Rehabilitation is to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities by providing high quality physical and cognitive rehabilitation services.
Description
About Magee Rehabilitation Hospital
Magee Rehabilitation Hospital is nationally recognized for its outstanding programs in physical and cognitive rehabilitation, with comprehensive services for spinal cord injury, brain injury, stroke, amputation, and orthopedic injuries.
Magee has been rated as one of America's leading rehabilitation hospitals in U.S. News & World Report's annual "America's Best Hospitals" rankings. Accredited by The Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), Magee was the first facility in the nation to be CARF-accredited in brain injury rehabilitation.
Magee, in conjunction with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, serves as the federally designated Regional Spinal Cord Injury Center of the Delaware Valley. One of only 14 such centers in the country.
Inpatient services are delivered at Magee's main campus located at Sixteenth & Race Streets in Center City Philadelphia. Outpatient programs are delivered through Magee's outpatient network, including the Magee Riverfront outpatient center at 1500 South Columbus Boulevard, Magee at Watermark in Center City, and Magee at Oxford Valley.
For more information, please call the Volunteer Coordinator, Shannon Jacobs at 215-587-3140 or shannon.jacobs@jefferson.edu.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
1513 Race StPhiladelphia, PA 19102
DATE POSTED
February 13, 2017
SKILLS
- Healthcare
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 16