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Classes
Patient Care Volunteer Training Class
Winter Volunteer Training Session
DATE: Mondays and Wednesdays, Oct. 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27, 29
TIME: 9 am to 1 pm
WHERE:
In-Home Patient Services Building
FORMAT: This series prepares interested
individuals to work with patients/families in their home or in a skilled
nursing facility.
Topics covered include:
- Hospice philosophy and the concept of palliative care
- Function of Snowline Hospice
- Personal death awareness exercises
- End stage disease process; current treatment modalities; emphasis on
pain and symptom control
- Family systems, boundaries, validation therapy
- Communication skills
- Body mechanics and safety in the home/facility
- Clinical team's role in practical (RN), psychosocial (MSW), spiritual
(Chaplain), and personal care (HHA) support
- Grief process
- Funeral planning
- Self care
- Volunteer role and responsibility
For further information, email the
Director of Clinical Volunteers
or call (530) 621-7820.
See our current volunteer
class!
Need some good
reasons to volunteer? Volunteering enables you to:
- Help others
- Improve the community
- Gain work experience
- Learn new skills
- Get out of the house
- Stay active and involved
- Meet new people
- Feel needed
- Test a new career
- Make professional contacts
- Gain academic credit
- Experience different life-styles
- Build self-confidence
- Do satisfying work
- Put a hobby to good purpose
- Meet new challenges
- Learn responsibility
- Feel like a winner
- Share fun time with family
- Put faith into action
- Help a friend
- Preserve the past
- Influence others
- Show others that you care
- Give back what you have received
- Be a role model for your children or grandchildren
- Empower others
- Be an individual, not just another number, and
- Share your natural talents with others
Make a difference. Change the world. Be a volunteer. |
