I am writing a one page essay for an interview. It is for a volunteer work at a hospital.?

Question

The title is: what is the most characteristics and attributes a person most poses in order to be successful in patient care.
please help me and give me some ideas.

Answer 1

You really got to care about what you are doing. if you don't it shows through in your verbal and non-verbal language.

Show and treat patients with respect. remember they are ill and easily become emotional as we would all do feeling horrible. So some you have to treat with kid gloves others you have to change your attitude and the way in which you speak. You may need to do this differently in EVERY room as every one is an idividual.

Relise and acknowledge that EVERYONE is an idividual. With individual believes. You must treat these believes with respect. That includes patients AND stafff.

Have an empathy for the patient and what they are going through including the emortions that go with it.

That goes for compassion as well.

I could keep on going but better stop.

I am a Nurse and proud to say that I usually (gloat) get positive feedback from not only my patient's but supervisor's.
I LOVE my job and the interestinng people I get to meet doing something I was born to do.

That's another thing.
Some people are just not 'carer's' and shouldn't have anything to do with patient care and contact. they should be a filing clerk.

Answer 2

Love with a smile, I am a volunteer at my local Hospital, when you walk into a room with a smile and a cheerful hello it immediately lifts the spirits of the person in the room. I ask them if they need anything, if they need a nurse I go get them, if they want some water or juice I get with a smile and it doesn't take long till you've helped the patient do the most important job you have as a volunteer, and that is to help them forget about their problems for awhile, once you get them talking about something else, you are being a real volunteer. The Love of People is the major requirement. And it will show up quickly. And the patients will know it.

Answer 3

i am a volunteer coordinator for a hospital - things like the ability to maintain confidentiality and adhere to strict professional boundaries are important topics to understand while working within a hospital environment.