VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION - HOSPICE OF THE WABASH VALLEY

What Can A Volunteer Do For Our Patients?

• Support patient and families
• Listen
• Talk
• Small tasks to help patient and family
• Provide companionship by "being there."
• Read to the patient
• Write letters

What Can a Volunteer Do for the Agency?

• Clerical support
• Committee or task groups
• Fundraising
• Board of directors
• Bereavement support
• Public education
• Speaking engagements

Our objective is to match the special skills and talents of each volunteer with the needs of our patient, family and agency.

Basic Qualifications

Basic qualifications for being a Hospice of the Wabash Valley volunteer are a sensitive approach to fellow human beings, respect for others' values and belief systems and a desire to help maintain the dignity and self-worth of the incurably ill patient and family.

Volunteer Education

One of the principles of the Hospice philosophy of care is the use of the volunteers as a part of the interdisciplinary team. Proper education and training of the volunteer is essential.

All volunteers are required to attend a series of orientation sessions (12 hours) before becoming certified as a Hospice volunteer. The sessions will include instructions about living with incurable illness, loss, death and bereavement. Volunteers learn about coping with grief, communication and listening, and ways to maintain their own sense of well-being as they serve as a support system.

Those who are willing to make a commitment of at least 3 to 10 hours a week to a client family, and who have not themselves suffered a severe personal loss within the last year, can receive more information about enrollment in the training programs. Applications and interviews are scheduled by contacting Hospice of the Wabash Valley at (812) 234-2515 or (800) 216-5692.

How to Contact Hospice

Learn more about us and join our team to provide a better quality of life for the incurably ill and their loved ones. Hospice of the Wabash Valley helps people to live... the rest of their lives.

Call (812) 234-2515 or (800) 216-5692 for more information. If you prefer, click here to print and send your information to:

Hospice of the Wabash Valley
400 8th Avenue
Terre Haute, IN 47804

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