The Importance Of Volunteering

I love the idea of providing students with a variety of opportunities that would satisfy each student's needs. Whether its research, volunteering and community service, it all is provided here. The curriculum also allows for a great amount of flexibility enabling students to pursue these other interest that would make them very competitive for residencies. I have a great interest in practicing in underserved communities upon graduation, therefore every opportunity I get to volunteer in clinics and shadow physician in underserved regions is something I look forward to here at Western University of Health Sciences. Likewise, the diverse student body is great as each student come from various backgrounds and have unique experiences all of which

volunteering is a person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task. In this report i will talk about the different types of volunteering in the:

The United States, as some can say, is a country known to be a hand in help. Although, they are a help by choice not mandatorly. In the United States there is a great amount of volunteers for many volunteering programs. The amount of volunteers increase through the years for different causes. There are volunteers for schools, churches, sport clubs, and even more. Not only do Americans volunteer but also make donations. Americans do this sincerely from heart, not because it's a law.

I undertook 2 years of volunteering at the local nursing home, which allowed me to experience a new side of healthcare. Feeding and talking to elderly patients with dementia and Alzheimer’s highlighted the importance of empathy in the profession allowing the patients to trust you , along with learning the art of caring whilst working alongside and speaking to the carers. I am grateful to have the opportunity to experience the hidden and less glamorous parts where I witnessed the residents I worked with deteriorate over the time of a year, yet seeing her smile when she looked at me outweighed any pain that would have been caused. Knowing just talking and feeding the patients can make such a big difference in a patient’s life allows me to be

The United States' idea of requiring citizens ages 18 - 30 to complete one year of service is a good idea, but being forced to do it, isn't right. We have freedom for a reason, we the people volunteer for ideas like this.

Becoming a hospice volunteer for terminally ill patients and families is an honor. Volunteering is a gift to these vulnerable patients and families as well as the volunteer. When potential volunteers are asked what the reason is for wanting to volunteer, the answer most frequently given is, “I want to make a difference and give back to our society”. Volunteers make an indescribable difference in the lives of countless hurting people. Volunteers provide companionship and socialization to patients through reading a book, singing, or by doing light chores to name a few. Volunteering can also be something as simple as sitting with a patient, even if that patient is unable to communicate verbally. Their way of communication may instead be through

I decided that I was going to write the first part of the paper without reading the chapters because I wanted to see what theories I unknowing believe in. After I wrote the first part I went through each theory and decided if I felt like I could relate parts of my career story to the theories. However, before I go into the theories I wanted to talk about how it surprised me that it did not cross my mind to talk about how my volunteering has influenced my career story until I read about Creating Narratives in the postmodern section of chapter three. I have done more volunteer “jobs” than I have paying jobs. I have to say as a volunteer the biggest lesson I learned was from how people treated you when they realized you were just volunteering.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would be working at an aquarium. This job has intrinsically impacted me in multiple ways. As a volunteer at the Maritime Aquarium I have learned about what kind of worker that I am, what kind of person I am, what type of person that I hope to be one day and vital communication skills that are necessary while moving into adult life. Personally, the most important ways that volunteering has impacted me is the sense of confidence I have gained and my newfound passion for these animals.

It is evident that the tradition of volunteerism may have a profound impact on American Society. To some extent, we tend to agree that recruiting methods can be critical for both the decision to volunteer and the settings in which adult people volunteer. Accordingly, Florida Hospital staff believe that volunteers and interns are an important part of their commitment to world-class healthcare and their goal of "extending healing through the ministry of Christ (Volunteers n.d.)." On a significant level, we might need to find out the best recruiting strategies and implementing ideas on how to increase such a vital volunteer population.

Volunteering has many effects on both the volunteer and the individuals that volunteering helps. Volunteer work is vital to the growth of society, as money is not abundant for many people. Without it, society as a whole would be much more harsh and bland. For example, many public service workers are volunteers, along with many local actors and shelter – both animal and human – workers. Volunteer work from groups of individuals such as firemen and firewomen, soup kitchen workers, and the Doctors Without Borders organization, is one of the main reasons that societies around the world have advanced to become first world countries.

Ever since I was old enough to volunteer, I started looking for opportunities around my community. At the time when I was thirteen years old, I mainly volunteered as an individual. However, as I grew older I joined programs such as the White Rock Youth Ambassadors (WRYA), Teen Library Council, Good Grief Hospice Program and the Youth Program offered at Peace Arch Hospital.

Volunteering has deeply embedded life changing experiences in my life. During my experience as a volunteer, I volunteered for Habitat for Humanity. Habitat for Humanity is a volunteer based organization that constructs, and renovates homes for people who were recently in a natural disaster, deeply in need, and for people who are in need of a stable place to live without being scared of being evicted. Not only have I learned how I affect other people, but I have also noticed that volunteering has had an effect on me. In my work as a volunteer, I never knew that what I do for people in need could have such an effect on me personally, and give me an inside view into less fortunate peoples lives.

This research is being conducted to investigate volunteer motivation, satisfactions and dissatisfactions. As is stated by Becsi et al (2008), much of the literature in the social sciences focuses on predicting volunteering behaviour with underlying theories of resources availability.

This semester I am volunteering as the assistant to the school counselor at Kilmer Elementary School. My supervisor’s name is Kelly Anchors and she has been doing counseling for years in the Chicago Public School system, and this is her first year at Kilmer. Her work load has nearly doubled this year and that is why she brought me in. My job is assisting her and the other teachers with the high school application process for the eighth graders. My role includes doing administrative work and leading small groups of eighth graders. I have been doing training for weeks now on the application process and am very familiar with it, more so than she is, so I am there to answer questions for the kids and guide them through the process. Through this experience, I hope to gain a better perspective of what I want to do with my life and what career path I want to go down. I am using this to explore working in a school setting and see if this is the demographic that I want to work with. This will require me to do a lot of self reflecting throughout the year about what I am experiencing and whether or not I am enjoying it. I hope to increase my communication skills, especially with children because they do not have the advanced conversation skills as adults do. I also hope to form bonds with both the people working above me and the children I am working with.

One of the best feelings in the world, is knowing that you have made an impact in someone’s life. Volunteer work is one of my favorite things to pass the time. I love seeing the warm smiles on others faces. I work with youth, the elderly, animal shelters, and cleaning up parks.