Hospital Volunteering Research Paper

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What most people don’t know about volunteering in hospitals is that most of your time is just sitting and waiting for stuff to happen. In most of my high school career, I decided to volunteer at hospitals in order to complete my required service hours. In my time volunteering, I was supposed to assist in filing papers for the hospital, but I spent staring at the alabaster walls of the hospital, I noticed a small energetic lady in blue scrubs running all around the floor, going from patient room to patient room. As I got to talking with the other people working there, I learned that this was Nurse Shelby. Nurse Shelby had been a nurse at this hospital for over fifteen years working in the cardio-thoracic floor, and according to the people around her, she still hasn’t lost a step. A nurse’s job is to work along other medical staff in order to provide suitable treatment for a patient’s illness, but for nurse Shelby this was just the minimum requirement for her job. In my time there, I don’t think I ever saw Nurse Shelby even sit down once, and at times, she even seemed to forgo her own lunch breaks. However, it was not this that made her stand out; it was the time that she spent with families after they had lost a love one or the time that she would spend taking to her elderly patients who had no one with them. She provided a personal touch to each of her patients’ lives just to make them feel a little more …show more content…
As a nurse, she believed that her responsibilities extend outside of providing a patient with just satisfactory care and believe it was up to nurses to provide