Adult volunteers are over the age of 18 and not currently enrolled in continuing education. Adult volunteers must commit to a minimum of one 3½ - 4 hour session per week for a minimum of 3 months.

For more information call 336-713-3516.

Some of our most popular volunteer areas are:

Admission/Discharge

• Assist in processing new patients
• Make new patients feel welcome
• Act as host/hostess, accompanying patients to their rooms or when discharged from the Medical Center
• Take wheelchair to patient’s room and escort patient and belongings to Main Floor to be picked up

Outpatient Comprehensive Cancer Center

• Cancer Patient Support
• Go to patient rooms and visit
• Relieve parents
• Read and play games with children
• Radiation Oncology
• Provide patients and their families support during follow-up or treatment appointments
• Transport cancer patients
• Various Support Services
• Assist the Cancer Center staff in providing psychosocial support for cancer patients and their families
• Outpatient Radiology and Mammography
• Assist patients who are having routine mammograms
• Clerical tasks
• Assist with films in reading room. Give support to waiting family members
• CPSP Library/Resource Room
• Provide families and patients with the resources they need to become familiar with their disease and the associated treatments
• Appearance Boutique
• Assist patients, guests and employees with different product lines specifically for the cancer patient/survivor
• Surgical Oncology Clinic
• Assist staff with patient check-in procedures

Child Care

• Assist staff with 6-week-old infants to 5-year-old toddlers (activities and ages will vary)

Coronary Care Unit

• Provide communication between CCU and the patients’ families
• Convey visiting policies, rules and regulations of CCU to families

Emergency Department

• Act as liaison between family and professional staff
• Run errands to other departments, labs and blood bank
• May assist patients under instruction from charge nurse

Gift Shop

• General duties in a retail shop such as putting up stock, pricing and waiting on customers

Information Desks

• Give directional information to various locations throughout the Medical Center
• Answer telephone and give patient room number or phone number when available

Intensive Care Waiting Room (ICU)

• Provide communication between ICU staff and the patients’ families
• Convey visiting policies, rules and regulations of ICU to families

Clerical Work

• Help in different areas of the Medical Center that request assistance with filing, alphabetizing, collating, keeping records, etc.

Operating Room

• Assist with inventory and assembly of supplies
• Observe OR procedures when possible

Patient Aid

• Work directly with patients on the floor
• Run errands to assist nursing staff
• Deliver snacks, mail, magazines and flowers to patients
• Help feed patients who require help

Rehab (Physical/Occupational Therapy)

• Answer telephone, assist with paperwork, and run errands as needed
• Transport, observe and assist with patients
• Assist staff and patients with gardening, exercise, crafts and games (i.e. Bingo)
• Perform patient aid duties. Perform light clerical duties

Service Excellence

An interview and special training are required for this area.

• Visit patients, explaining the purpose of the Service Excellence Department and recording complaints as requested

Special Procedures

• Assist Radiology staff with errands and supplies
• Learn how to run film and transfer to file room
• Observe cases of interest

Surgical Family Waiting

• Make scheduled trips to Operating Room for information on progress of patients
• Report information to families of patients who are having surgery and try to make their wait easier

Brenner Children’s Hospital

• Brenner Psychiatry
• Assist staff in promoting self-esteem and self-worth by reading, playing games and socializing with patients
• Bedside
• Go to patient rooms and visit
• Relieve parents
• Read and play games with the children
• Child Life
• Play in infant/toddler and preschool/school age playrooms with children
• Intermediate Care Nursery
• Help to feed, bathe and care for sick infants
• Assist staff
• Pediatric Clinic
• Entertain children in outpatient clinic waiting areas
• Pediatric Oncology
• Assist Pediatric Oncology Social Worker in Outpatient Clinic with entertaining children
• Brenner Reception Desks
• Greet visitors
• Give directional information in Brenner Children’s Hospital
• Answer telephone and assist guests
• Pediatric/Family Resource Library
• Assist public and perform general librarian duties