Opportunities
Main Lobby Information Desk
- Provide general information
- Greet patients and guests as they enter our facility
- Assist visitors with location of patient
- Guide, direct or escort guests if necessary
- Provide reading material, rounding and other comfort measures to those waiting in lobby and waiting areas
- Round-up wheelchairs
Medical-Surgical Unit
- Interact with patients in positive ways:
- Read to the patient or write a letter
- Provide light conversation
- Perform hourly rounding with patients
- Provide warm, moist washcloths to freshen-up
- Provide reading material to patients and guests
- Provide toys to pediatric patients
- Assist staff with clerical needs when needed
Emergency Department
- Make patients and their family members feel welcome and comfortable
- Assist in explaining visitor policy to visitors as necessary
- Transmit messages from visitors to patients in the area and relay messages from patients to visitors
- Direct or escort visitors to appropriate area when permission to visit is granted
- Keep waiting area neat and clean
- Perform hourly rounding with patients
- Round-up wheelchairs
Birthing Center Post-Partum Volunteer
- Be sensitive to post-partum Birthing Center patients and their family and friends
- Perform various clerical tasks when needed
- Provide warm, moist washcloths to freshen up
Gift Shop
- Volunteers provide 100% of the staffing for the gift shop
- Provide courteous customer service in retail environment
- Assist customer in choosing appropriate gift
- Operate cash register and handle cash accurately
ICU Family Liaison Volunteer
- Interact with patients in positive ways
- Read to the patient or write a letter
- Provide light conversation
- Be sensitive to ICU patients and their family and friends
- Assist to explain visitor policy to guests as necessary
- Greet, escort, and/or direct patients within the facility
- Be a liaison between ICU staff and family
- Assemble various packets and charts, as necessary
- Provide warm, moist washcloths to freshen up
Mat-Su Regional Medical Center Outpatient Center
- Outpatient lobby in Wasilla Campus at Lakeview entrance
- Greet, escort, and/or direct patients within the facility
- Assist admitting representative with flow of traffic
- Provide staff, patients, and guests with general information and assistance
- Provide toys to pediatric patients
Community Events Volunteer
- Assist with hospital-sponsored community events
- Mat-Su Regional Medical Center Sportsman's Show – March
- Mat-Su Regional Medical Center Baby Fair - April
- Today's Women Show - April
- Alaska State Fair - August
- Book Fairs - September
- Mat-Su Regional Medical Center Women's Fair – October
- Health and Wellness Expo – October
- Other events as planned and needed
Menus
- Work with dietitian personnel in the kitchen
- Pass out menus to all in-house patients
- Pick up menus when completed and return them to dietitian staff
- Assist patients with filling out menus if assistance if needed
- This is a 7 days a week task
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