Volunteers in hospice and palliative care : a handbook for volunteer service managers / edited by Derek Doyle ; with a foreword by Dame Cicely Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Doyle, Derek.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Volunteer workers in terminal care.

Voluntarism--Management.

Voluntarism.

Hospice care--Management.

Hospice care.

Hospice Care--organization & administration.

Volunteers--organization & administration.

Palliative Care.

Medical Subjects:

Hospice Care--organization & administration.

Volunteers--organization & administration.

Palliative Care.

Physical Description:

xii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

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. Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada have become increasingly interested in the United Kingdom's use of such volunteers. Aimed primarily at Volunteer Service Managers, 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.

Contents:

2 The managerial role of the Volunteer Service Manager 10

3 The position of the Volunteer Service Manager within the organization 23

4 The selection of volunteers 34

5 The training and education of volunteers 52

6 The support of volunteers 80

7 Volunteers working in a comprehensive palliative care service 93

8 Volunteers working in a community palliative care service 111

9 Volunteers working in a tertiary referral teaching hospital 129

10 Volunteers in a children's hospice 144

11 Volunteers working in a bereavement service 163

12 Professionals working as volunteers 176

13 Legal issues for the Volunteer Service Manager 186

14 Ethical issues for the Volunteer Service Manager 203.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0198516088

OCLC:

50301581