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Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care Dame Cicely Saunders

Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care By Dame Cicely Saunders

Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care by Dame Cicely Saunders


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Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and always important work. Written by a team of volunteer service managers, this book provides practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams.

Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care Summary

Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Handbook for Volunteer Service Managers by Dame Cicely Saunders

This book provides comprehensive, practical guidelines on the responsibilities of those who lead, co-ordinate and manage volunteers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams. Volunteers are key workers, who often perform difficult and always important work. In the United Kingdom alone, there are thousands of volunteers in hospice work, a small proportion doing work with patients, and the vast majority doing equally valuable work such as driving, sitting with relatives, manning charity shops and telephones. As a result, Europe, Australia, the United States and Canada are very interested in the United Kingdom's use of volunteers. Aimed primarily at Volunteer Service Managers in small hospices, large specialist palliative care units, and in general hospitals with palliative care teams, this book covers volunteer selection, training, supervision and support, and legal and ethical considerations. Information is presented in an easily accessible way, using key points, summary panels and checklists. Contributors, who are all Volunteer Service Managers themselves, have included small, clinical vignettes to bring the text to life. This book will also appeal to the volunteers themselves.

Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care Reviews

This refreshingly jargon-free book informs, guides, educates and generally gives clarity to what managing volunteers in palliative care is about and how complex this work really is... I only wish it had been published when I first started! Volunteering Magazine Derek Doyle is to be congratulated on producing another excellent volume for palliative are. I think that any palliative care service with volunteers should obtain a copy for their VSM, as a token of support and gratitude. IAHPC Website This 223-page text will prove invaluable for new voluntary service managers, and an aid to better management and performance in many established services. Definitely recommended reading. Centre for Palliative Care Research and Education, Australia

Table of Contents

Foreword by Dame Cicely Saunders; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. The managerial role of the Volunteer Service Manager; 3. The position of the Volunteer Service Manager within the organisation; 4. The selection of volunteers; 5. The training and education of volunteers; 6. The support of volunteers; 7. Volunteers working in a comprehensive palliative care service; 8. Volunteers working in a community palliative care service; 9. Volunteers working in a tertiary referral teaching hospital; 10. Volunteers in a children's hospice; 11. Volunteers as bereavement counsellors; 12. Professionals working as volunteers; 13. Legal issues for the Volunteer Service Manager; 14. Ethical issues of for the Volunteer Service Manager; Glossary of terms

Additional information

GOR003243043
9780198516088
0198516088
Volunteers in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Handbook for Volunteer Service Managers by Dame Cicely Saunders
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Oxford University Press
20021024
240
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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