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    Throughout the years I feel that I’ve had a number of valuable experiences, but none that have changed me as much as my experience volunteering at Children’s Hospital Colorado. I still vividly remember my first walking past the sliding glass doors of the pristine hospital on my very first day volunteering during the summer of 2012. My fourteen year old self was utterly terrified, pondering all the possible ways things could go wrong. I remember feeling insecure and slightly clueless, unsure of where

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    I’ve had a number of valuable experiences, my most significant experience is my volunteering experience at Children’s Hospital Colorado. I still remember feeling utterly terrified on my first day volunteering, pondering all the possible ways things could go wrong. I suddenly felt as though I have never experienced this before. I was on my own, responsible for myself and all of my actions. On my first day volunteering, I found myself doing deliveries on the sterile patient floors. There was a type

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    Volunteering at COSI reminded me that children of all ages and backgrounds can get excited about learning. I was able to make a clear, tangible difference in the lives by teaching children science through enlightening experiments. However, because there are multiple age groups that come and visit COSI, I never knew who was going to see to my experiment. This forced me to become more flexible and think on my feet. It is always good to plan ahead, but excruciatingly futile because you do not always

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    Volunteering at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff, California was an extremely enlightening experience. For the first time, I was given the opportunity to interact with patients on a personal level. Although as an auxiliary member I was mainly responsible for sanitizing beds, changing linens and restocking the rooms, the ability to observe the physicians as they interacted with the patients and the opportunity to speak with the patients was invaluable. I learned an immensely important

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    skills through volunteering at Maine Medical Center. I learned what it takes to become a doctor at Maine Medical Center and why it is a leading hospital (WHERE?). Volunteering made me realize that this is the only hospital I would like to work at. The staff within the hospital makes it a wonderful place to be a part of, even as a volunteer. The many people I worked with made me feel like family. They were willing to answer any question, and teach me anything they knew. Through volunteering, I learned

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    volunteer. Accordingly, Florida Hospital staff believe that volunteers and interns are an important part of their commitment to world-class healthcare and their goal of "extending healing through the ministry of Christ (Volunteers n.d.)." On a significant level, we might need to find out the best recruiting strategies and implementing ideas on how to increase such a vital volunteer population. For instance, the best recruiting strategies will be depending on the way the hospital services feed the immediate

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    For my project I have been volunteering at Rogue Regional Medical Center. I started volunteering at the hospital in July, I now am still working to complete all of my hours. My previous hours were spent with gaining training so I could be successful in my volunteering. Also I worked with employees of the hospital to learn the lay out of the hospital. My project has had bumps along the way but I have worked them out and I’m now getting close to finishing my hours. In my last narrative I talked

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    My Volunteering Memories

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    Nemours Hospital for Children. As I grew older, I started to go there less until this past summer, I applied to volunteer at the hospital . I wasn't sure whether I wanted to do it or not but i applied anyway under my mothers influence. I got into the program. Once I started my volunteering I soon realized that this would be the event that marks my transition from childhood to adulthood. With learning to make new friends, learning to care for children, and learning of the value of volunteering, I had

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    Why I Want To Volunteer

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    Ever since I was little I loved helping and taking care of people. I grew up with hospital knowledge because my mother and my grandmother both work in the medical field at Lahey Medical Center. I had always wanted to volunteer and create new experiences. When I took the medical assisting class that was offered at PVMHS, it gave me the opportunity to volunteer and create long lasting relationships. I started volunteering in the summer of two thousand and fifteen in the ambulatory surgery department at

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    thing one can give to others. Volunteering is, at its core, giving your time to help others. Volunteering has always been a big part of my life; at a younger age I would help the ladies in the cafeteria serve lunch after Sunday school and clean up the main hall afterwards, in high school I was in organizations that presented me with ample opportunities to volunteer, and presently I still manage to volunteer every semester in college. Aside from keeping volunteering as a constant aspect of my life

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