Statement Of Purpose: I Volunteer In The ED

I volunteered at San Joaquin Community Hospital Emergency Department in Bakersfield, California for 3-4 hours a week for two-and-a-half years. While volunteering in the ED, I helped the cleaning staff clean rooms and beds for incoming patients, I restocked rooms with needed supplies, I talked with patients who needed someone to talk to, I helped staff call patients from the Emergency Department waiting room, and I cleaned commonly touched objects such as: door handles, counters, computer keyboards, and hand rails. I also helped in the gift shop if the volunteer supervisor needed someone to cover someone who may have become sick. In the gift shop I restocked items, helped customers find certain items, and worked at the cash register. While

volunteering at the hospital for almost three years, I become close with the staff and worked very well with them by making sure their rooms were stocked and talking to their patients when the patient needed someone to talk to.