<p>I want to do voluntary work for a hospital because i want to go to a med school
HOWEVER, i live in Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and they do not have that stuff.
So, i have to ask them to accept me to do voluntary work, but they don't know what i am supposed to do there.
So, What do you do over there?
Do you fill out papers for patients, or something?
Please tell me, because i am very very desperate!</p>
<p>additionaly, do you recieve like a certain form that you did voluntary hospital work there?
i have no clue at all, so please help me!</p>
<p>my hospital has a volunteer program. gift shop, patient discharge, transportation…</p>
<p>I volunteer in the Nursing Home area of the hospital, for the old people. I don’t know if your country has those. I basically move patients around in wheelchairs, hand out snacks and help them in activities.</p>
<p>I also volunteer in the Nursing Home portion of the nearby VA hospital. My hours are electronically logged, but if you are not in college yet, you shouldn’t have to worry too much about medical volunteering until you get into college.</p>
<p>Volunteering is especially fun afterwards when you get to race with the wheel chairs. :)</p>
<p>At the hospital where I volunteer, you sign up for either workign at the giftshop, takign pictures of newborns, sending things, etc.</p>
<p>At the hospitals here, its generally only for seniors and you just fill out and submit an application, but if you have connections (my mother is in health administration) sometimes you can get in younger.</p>
<p>I started volunteering at the hospital last November. I have like 30 hours so far. It’s good to volunteer.</p>
<p>Basically 90% of the time they will let you volunteer. You are essentially working for them for free. They will like it.</p>
<p>I do human resourses. I just file things. But I have access to everyone’s social security, med records, personal files, and stuff. LOLOLOLOLOL
But, I just do my work. No illegal stuff. =p In my college letter I’m going to write that I can handle responsibility.</p>
<p>volunteering at my hospital is really difficult, there is a really long application process and everything due to how many people are applying.
after sending in recs and getting accepted, you go to an orientation where you sign up for a department.
i work at the DOU and i stock patient’s supplies, wheelchair, help nurses, run errands, deliver things, get patients water & etc… file things, etc etc.
there’s more interesting departments, though. last year two volunteers got to help out in a surgery. giftshop, pediatrics, etc.
it does get repetitive after a while, though, but it’s really fun.</p>
<p>^ Guys</p>
<p>it all depends on which hospital you go to, what kind of volunteering you do, and what they appoint to you.</p>
<p>As many of you know, I’m in one right now (full time and directed by the World Health Org. and the Office of Health Services in Mexico)</p>
<p>As a HOSPITAL VOLUNTEER DUTIES/BENEFITS/STUFF</p>
<p>-Report Stuff (check out the quality and certainty of Clinical history/Archives)
-Archiving (Archiving correctly medical archives)
-Transportation
-Orientation for patients (like tell them where everything is)
-Sometimes I get to watch cool stuff (like surgeries, child births) and get an education from it.
-Learn from Doctors (at times we can sit and watch consultations)
-Take classes even (with some medical students)
-Learn about medicine as a whole.
-Learn First Aid, Re-animation techniques
-Seminars and Medical Theory classes (just like a med school environment)
-Sometimes if we’re really lucky I can even apply some of the things I learn (like take blood pressure, do some maneuvers)</p>
<p>And at RURAL MEDICINE</p>
<p>-Take a survey of the areas we go to
-Provide basic necessities if they are not there (like water, food, clothing)
-Educate the people on health issues (like diabetes prevention, safe sex, etc.)
-Apply what we learn from the Hospital onto the field (like take blood pressure, run BMIs, give talks to families about health issues, etc.)
-Give Vaccinjes (especially the essential ones like Polio, Tetanus, etc.)
-Now we can even give consultations.
-Report our findings, write research about our efforts.</p>
<p>And more</p>
<p>so I get a pretty good education of what medicine is about
before I jump onto the med-school band wagon!</p>
<p>Medicine is though,</p>