Personal Narrative: My Volunteer At Memorial Hospital West

For the past number of years, I have taken part in volunteer activities on my own, and as a member of the National Honor Society. Multiple times through the past four years, I participated in children’s holiday parties at my church. My main tasks were assembling displays and games, and assisting children who wanted to play one. I have also fundraised for many charities concerning life-threatening illnesses such as cystic fibrosis, cancer, and diabetes. During my freshman year, I completed nearly 25 hours of community service at Julia Boyer Reinstein Library. Besides restocking library materials and cleaning up around the building, I also assisted many people who were looking for certain items or had general questions. People from all different demographics and age groups visited the library and had an abundant amount of needs that I helped fill. Later this

I have taken the same risks every other person has taken. I have driven a car, got on an airplane, crossed the street, trust people I barely know; all risks that we have taken daily. We put our hearts, lives, and safety at risk all the time. Getting into relationships, telling people secrets but, the risk I took was more of a moral and personal risk. The last three months I have decided to volunteer at the Orlando Veteran Affairs Medical Center.

Since I first delved into community service two years ago, I have not only found a passion for helping others, but also a sense of belonging. After my freshman year of highschool, I was lacking direction. I had no idea what I wanted to involve myself in, but I knew I wanted to start something to help people. Therefore, my friends and I created our own charity, The Pink Bowz. Since 2015, I have worked in my community to expand this organization which helps women battling breast cancer. The Pink Bowz has since completed approximately 200 hours of community service and donated over $5000 to five women in the Hampstead - Wilmington area. Through this experience I found a passion for the fundraising process. I campaigned at my school to start a

As a student-athlete who has been involved in multiple research activities for the duration of my undergraduate college experience, free hours have always been precious. During my time as an undergraduate student, I have helped coordinate an annual race to raise money for mesothelioma research with over one thousand participants each time and have helped tear down and build a house for Habitat for Humanity. Further, I have volunteered, deferring payment, as a peer tutor for several undergraduate courses. However, my most meaningful volunteering experience has been the time that I have volunteered with AseraCare Hospice. Prior to the beginning of this academic year, I had only volunteered with AseraCare for around two months as a junior following

Hello class I am Brandon Jackson I’m currently living in beautiful Jacksonville, FL but I’m originally from

A unique experience that I had at Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital was that we also covered labor and delivery and the mother-baby unit. Most of our programming and interventions on these units involved bereavement and grief support, sibling education/support, and memory/legacy making. From my coursework and volunteer experiences at the University of Charleston, South Carolina, I had a solid foundational background with grief and bereavement through our child life courses, our death and dying course, our experiences with Shannon’s Hope, and our experiences with Rainbows. A family is forever changed when there is a loss of a family member, specifically a child (Pearson, 2005). A parents reaction to the death of a child greatly differs

On December 2nd of 2015, my city of San Bernardino encountered a terrorist attack that took the lives of 14 innocent people and injured 22 at the Inland Regional Center. I can only imagine what it feels like to lose someone whose only intentions were to go to work. This devastated many families and took away their loved ones. Seeing the pain and heartbreak, I knew that there was something that needed to be done. After seeing the chaos go on in my city, I decided to volunteer at my local Salvation Army to do something good in the middle of all this negativity. I donated clothes my family no longer used, blankets, and even pillows for those who couldn't afford them. I also volunteered to serve lunch on the weekends. Seeing their faces knowing

Today was my first day to volunteer at Hamtramck Medical Center. I spent the first forty minutes with Elia. She introduced me to other nurses, also, she showed me everything in Hamtramck Medical Center including, patients’ rooms, lab, waiting rooms, and doctors’ offices. After that, she read me the instructions, one of the instructions is to treat the patients kindly, and everything happens in Hamtramck Medical Center stay there. Lastly, Elia introduced me to my supervisor.

For my project I have been volunteering at Rogue Regional Medical Center. I started volunteering at the hospital in July, I now am still working to complete all of my hours. My previous hours were spent with gaining training so I could be successful in my volunteering. Also I worked with employees of the hospital to learn the lay out of the hospital. My project has had bumps along the way but I have worked them out and I’m now getting close to finishing my hours.

My job at Mercy Health Saint Mary Campus was ironic. Most of the experiences that I acquired were different from what I have learned from FSU. At the college, I learned the basic computer hardware, software, and operating system. I took a class on how to repair computer by taking it apart and troubleshooting it with software. The other classes were networking, security, and windows server. I was surprised that desktop support technician at Mercy Health has a different process of how to do their jobs. I don't have all the permission to do everything myself. Most of the jobs were assigned to a specific team. The WAN team who is responsible for the network equipment such as the routers and switches. The LAN team job is to configure the servers.

Since my first year in high school, I have been volunteering at St. Rose Hospital. As a volunteer, I deliver food to

Volunteering with women, I have had the opportunity to work with women from different backgrounds. I have had the pleasure of being a GED tutor and even helping a 60-year-old woman study to obtain their GED. The women I worked with were all incarcerated, former drug abusers and domestic violence survivors. One of the women I made a connection with after working together for about 2 months had recently been incarcerated. She was an older white female who only had a 6th-grade education. It doesn’t matter what she was in jail for, or for how long, I just appreciated her for not only being 60 and wanting to get her GED, but also allowing me to help her to get it. I was only 19 and the respect that the women showed me at the program only boosted

On a joyful and hopeful day in June I began my internship at Mount Sinai Medical Center. I can recall anxiously sitting in the volunteer services office and hearing Edie Shapiro saying she wants to put me in a place where I will work. I was assigned to fulfill my internship duties at Thea Patient Relations Department. The first thought that across my head was, “What is that?” My mentor at that department would be Maudline Richards. She explained to me the purpose and what my duties and responsibilities there will be. I must admit I wasn't to thrilled to be interning at the department where I had to listen to patients and there families complain. I wanted to be some where more exciting… Somewhere amount the neurosurgeons. After all, that

It was amazing getting to know you through my internship at Windy Hill Hospital Lab. I am happy that Monica, my wonderful coworker at Piedmont Atlanta, will be working under you shortly.

I am basically a volunteer/ intern with the American Red Cross for six months, which my internship with the Red Cross will end in the month of May 2017. Started of in August of last year 2016, I would usually come in the Broward chapter to do casework for the Disaster Team Action. However, due to my availability I had and realizing I was only volunteer for six months, Mr. Joe Baldelomar asked me if I could provide my services as a SAF agent, which I gladly accepted. In my Red Cross Email, I am considered as a contractor and I therefore have temporarily access till June I believe. After June, I will no longer have access to my Red Cross