Volunteer services are an important humanistic supplement to medical interventions such as medication and surgery. Most volunteers are kind-hearted members of the public and college students. They offer their services without seeking any return: some provide basic services such as outpatient guidance; some are music therapy volunteers; some are cancer survivors who share their illness experiences to offer psychological counseling, share rehabilitation experiences, and help patients with special difficulties or those without family caregivers; some are hospice care volunteers who accompany patients in advanced and terminal wards, read to them, listen to their stories, and provide grief comfort...
ACCOMPANYING VOICES
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Art therapy (including music, painting, and handicrafts) should be popularized, but most current practices only stay at the level of volunteer public welfare performances.
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The peer mutual aid model has been widely recognized, which can enhance the value of cancer survivor volunteers.
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Hospitals should set up social work departments, integrate volunteer services into humanistic construction, and shift from scattered activities to the model of "social worker leadership + volunteer implementation".
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The Piano Begins Again-2
Nightingale Volunteer Service Team
OUR sTORIES
Read the 3 stories of volunteers and social workers.Volunteers from the Nightingale Volunteer Service Group offer companionship and emotional comfort to patients and their family caregivers. Meanwhile, volunteer piano performers fill the hospital’s public areas with soft live music. These voluntary efforts ease ward‑induced anxiety, bringing precious moments of calm to all those grappling with serious illness.