- Volunteer
Volunteer Your Time For Life-Changing Work
Hospice volunteering is a wonderful way to give back to our communities in the Sherman Texas/Claera Oklahoma area while filling your own cup! There are many ways you can get involved. Volunteers are an integral part of hospice work, and they offer help and services that may not have been otherwise accessible to our patients.
- Volunteer Work
Helping Them Benefits You
Our goal is to create an environment in which patients, families, staff, and hospice volunteers are treated with respect and dignity. When a hospice volunteer is assigned a patient, the volunteer becomes an integral member of that patient’s interdisciplinary team.
A Hospice Volunteer who joins this team will often bring help and services to which patients and their families may not have access. Even without a medical background, a hospice volunteer has gifts they can offer.
A Hospice Volunteer who joins this team will often bring help and services to which patients and their families may not have access. Even without a medical background, a hospice volunteer has gifts they can offer. Here are some examples of the volunteer role:
- Companionship
- Respite care for family members and other caregivers
- Massage, healing touch or other alternative therapies
- Music
- Pet Therapy
- Arts and Crafts
- Errands for the Family and Light Housework
- Games
- Bedside/Vigil or Eleventh Hour Care
- Namaste office support
- Veterans helping veterans
- Volunteering with Guardian can count towards community service hours or volunteer hour requirements.
- Before visiting patients or families, Guardian volunteers are interviewed by the Volunteer Coordinator and complete 6 hours of training.
- Virtual training sessions are offered as needed, usually once per month.
