The Tools to Help
February 25, 2011 | By: Volunteer Services
“Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.”
Benjamin E. Linder (1959-87)
Five of our Hospice of the Comforter volunteers (who happen to be licensed nurses) saw something they could do. The tool they picked up was a tiny hypodermic needle. Armed with this tool they have begun the training process to administer and read Tuberculin Skin Tests.
Hospice of the Comforter's staff and volunteers with patient contact are required to take two initial TB tests, plus an annual TB test. This translates into hundreds of TB tests to be planted, read, and documented. This extraordinary group of women will help test new volunteers during our bimonthly evening Orientation and Training or for annual after-hours testing for volunteers who work full time.
As these five volunteers, Arlene McCutcheon, Barbra Montesi, Jackie Nichols, Nancy LaPointe and Nora Finnegan-Miller, expand their role into higher levels of service, there is this question: Have you picked up the tool of your choice to do what you can do?