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 Amy Gray and Emilie Metcalf
Volunteering at Pitt County Memorial Hospital is a valuable and rewarding experience. The hospital is huge, and volunteers are needed to perform a variety of tasks including patient transport, patient check-in, candy cart, and many other jobs. Volunteers receive a lot of benefits like free meal passes, free parking and experience and references for school and future employment.
Every employee and volunteer is responsible for staying up to date on all hospital procedures and regulations, especially fire safety, what to do in case of an emergency or “code,” and patient privacy. As volunteers in this department, Amy and I help the staff make flash cards, display boards, and buttons; we type information into the computer; and categorize the videotapes, among other tasks. The doctors can carry the packets of flash cards in their pockets for quick and easy access to a reference, the display boards are used in presentations throughout the hospital and the Pitt County community, and the buttons are to used commend the Neonatal Staff for their accomplishments in the department. The information we typed into the computer will eventually become a book the Education Department is creating to inform stroke patients about their condition and recovery. Overall, we are having a great time working in the Education Department and learning how to use many new types of office tools like the laminator, the glue machine, the button-making machine, and the paper-cut out and corner-rounding machines.
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