Optimization of methods verifying volunteers' ability to provide hospice care

doi:10.1007/s13187-016-1154-7

Optimization of methods verifying volunteers' ability to provide hospice care

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punktacja MNiSW [2018 A]: 20

title:	Optimization of methods verifying volunteers' ability to provide hospice care
author:	Szeliga Marta , Mirecka Jadwiga
journal title:	Journal of Cancer Education
volume:	33
issue:	2
date of publication :	2018
pages:	470-476
ISSN:	0885-8195
eISSN:	1543-0154
DOI:	10.1007/s13187-016-1154-7
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	The subject of the presented work was an attempt at optimization of the methods used for verification of the candidates for medical voluntary workers in a hospice and decreasing the danger of a negative influence of an incompetent volunteer on a person in a terminal stage of a disease and his or her relatives. The study was carried out in St. Lazarus Hospice in Krakow, Poland, and included 154 adult participants in four consecutive editions of "A course for volunteers - a guardian of the sick" organized by the hospice. In order to improve the recruitment of these workers, the hitherto methods of selection (an interview with the coordinator of volunteering and no less than 50% of attendance in classes of a preparatory course for volunteers") were expanded by additional instruments-the tests whose usefulness was examined in practice. Knowledge of candidates was tested with the use of a written examination which consisted of four open questions and an MCQ test comprising 31 questions. Practical abilities were checked by the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). A reference point for the results of these tests was a hidden standardized long-term observation carried out during the subsequent work of the volunteers in the stationary ward in the hospice using the Amsterdam Attitude and Communication Scale (AACS). Among the tests used, the greatest value (confirmed by a quantitative and qualitative analysis) in predicting how a given person would cope with practical tasks and in contact with the sick and their relatives had a practical test of the OSCE type.
keywords in English:	volunteer, hospice, method of verification
departmental parameterization:	20
affiliation:	Wydział Lekarski : Zakład Dydaktyki Medycznej
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper