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Hospital volunteerism as human resource solution: Motivation for both volunteers and the public health sector

SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 2017
Background: A volunteer programme with 50 registered volunteers was established in 2007 at a secondary-level public, semi-rural regional hospital in the Cape Winelands, South Africa.
Guinevere M. Lourens, Danielle K. Daniels-Felix   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Hospital Volunteers - Are They Satisfied? [PDF]

, 2010
We examine satisfaction with HRM practices, namely recruitment, training and rewarding in NPO’s and attitudes regarding the appropriateness of these practices. The participants in this study are 76 volunteers, affiliated to 4 different NPO’s, which work in hospitals and have direct contact with patients and their families.
Ferreira, Marisa R., Proença, Teresa, Proença, João F.   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Maximizing Ageing Using Volunteer Engagement (MAUVE): one health system’s journey to spread a volunteer-based intervention for acutely ill older adults – a prospective observational study [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objectives Older inpatients face a higher risk of delirium, falls and functional decline during hospital stays. Volunteer programmes have been shown to improve patient outcomes in single settings, but little is known about their implementation and spread
Samir K Sinha, Kristina Marie Kokorelias, Donald Melady, Alfiya Gali, Nicoda Foster, Brittany Ellis   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Seroprevalence of anti‐SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies in COVID‐19 patients and healthy volunteers up to 6 months post disease onset

European Journal of Immunology, 2020
SARS‐CoV‐2 has emerged as a human pathogen, causing clinical signs, from fever to pneumonia—COVID‐19—but may remain mild or asymptomatic. To understand the continuing spread of the virus, to detect those who are and were infected, and to follow the ...
Birte Blankenhaus, Andreia Gomes, Helena Nunes-Cabaço   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Recognition of factors affecting the use of volunteer clinical forces in hospitals in Tehran: A qualitative study

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Volunteers are valuable human resources for service-providing organizations. Health system requires their participation and cooperation in all sectors to achieve more success. The present study was conducted to recognize factors influencing
Mahdi Hasani, Hassan Abolghasem Gorji, Sirous Panahi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survey analysis on cooperation between volunteers with COVID-19 and nurses in makeshift hospital

陆军军医大学学报, 2023
Objective To investigate the team collaboration between volunteers with COVID-19 and nurses in makeshift hospital and provide strategies for the shortage of medical care in makeshift hospital.
XIAO He, HE Wanzhen, ZHOU Xiaoping, LI Ling   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

From nuisance to helpful assistants: A qualitative thematic analysis of medical volunteers' experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran

Nursing Practice Today, 2023
Background & Aim: Volunteers’ perceptions may affect their future decisions to participate in crisis intervention.  Few studies in Iran have been conducted to examine the experiences of medical personnel who volunteered during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Mohammad Hossein Sadeghian, Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani, Mozhgan Moshtagh, Elham Elahi, Abdolrahman Rostamian, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smartphone activated community first responders’ experiences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests alerts, a qualitative study

Resuscitation Plus, 2022
Aim: The aim was to illustrate how community first responders perceive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest alerts delivered via smartphone, what support they have and how they cope with potentially distressing experiences.
Marie-Louise Södersved Källestedt, Harald Lindén, Petronella Bjurling-Sjöberg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ILIVE Project Volunteer study. Developing international consensus for a European Core Curriculum for hospital end-of-life-care volunteer services, to train volunteers to support patients in the last weeks of life: A Delphi study

Palliative Medicine, 2021
Background: Volunteers make a huge contribution to the health and wellbeing of the population and can improve satisfaction with care especially in the hospice setting.
T. McGlinchey, S. Mason, R. Smeding, A. Goosensen, Inmaculada Ruiz-Torreras, D. Haugen, M. Bakan, J. Ellershaw   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Volunteers as members of the stroke rehabilitation team: a qualitative case study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Clinicians are facing increasing demands on their time, exacerbated by fiscal constraints and increasing patient complexity. Volunteers are an essential part of the many healthcare systems, and are one resource to support improved patient ...
Michelle L A Nelson, Rachel Thombs, Juliana Yi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source