Hospice Observation Report

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Volunteering at the Hospice included lots of inspiration, effort, impact, and personal growth. The reality that the Hospice patients were suffering and distress is what motivated me to become a volunteer at our local Hospice and sign up for the class at the high school that goes over to our local Hospice. My class and I came up with the idea for our activity by thinking to our self who around town needs our volunteer work the most and we came up Hospice. The fact that the people at the Hospice were suffering and upset is what inspired me to go out and be a volunteer at our local Hospice. The volunteer activity started by the class and me going over to the Hospice and them teaching what we can and can not do. After learning what we can and can not do, we …show more content…

The effort required to do the service project was be on time, be fastidious to the patients, have a positive attitude, have a full tank of gas, and just be ready to work. The work that I did at Hospice included delivering flowers to patients, visiting patients that just needed to talk to someone, doing a spa day for the patients, or doing what every hospice needed me to do for. I drove to the patient’s house, the hospital, or the nursing home to deliver their flower, talk to them, or do a spa day for them. The steps that I had to take to accomplish this goal were baby steps. The steps included recognizing that the Hospice patients are usually their patients because they are close to death, become close to the patients so we would have a good relationship when I would visit them but I would have to make sure the relationship was not to close because then I would be hurt when they passed away, and then the final step is just do the work that is asked of me. The only other people that I recruited to help were the rest of my

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