Hey everyone,
Helen here (Tier 1), and I guess I'll just share a little bit about my work at Hospice Atlanta this past week. Everyone working there is extremely nice and open to helping learn what the Hospice does and how it works, and having Richelle work with me is really awesome.
At first, (and I guess now still) I have lots of paperwork, stamping, and filing to do, but also very necessary things to help the hospice running. I feel like the hospice is a really good learning experience because of its private environment. I am interested in going to medicine, so one-on-one time dealing with doctors and nurses is really nice. We even get to participate in interdisciplinary in-patient meetings with doctors, nurses, social workers, and bereavement counselor, which gives such a different view of taking care of patients.
Sitting on those meetings and leading teas and coffees with bereavement counselors really made me think about the mindset at the hospice. How did these people continue through their job, caring about patients who have been diagnosed to die in the very near future? They have to treat people with the mindset of comfort rather than survival. Some workers have to try and detach themselves from the patients while others find some faith or belief to carry on their work with. I have yet to really figure it out what I think about when it comes to these patients, but I guess I'll have to figure that out later.
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I worked at the Hospice last summer and it ended up being one of the best experiences of my life, so much so that I still volunteer there during the school year. What I loved best about it was how they treated a person on every level, doctoros for the physical, a chaplain for the spiritual, a social worker for the psychological, and volunteers to fill in the gaps. Hope you have as a great an experience as I did.
-Sarah (Tier 2)
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