P36 In Patient Unit (IPU) volunteer line management and expansion of volunteer roles and responsibilities

Challenges and opportunities in healthcare volunteer management: insights from volunteer administrators.

Volunteer administrators from 105 hospitals in five states in the northeast and southern United States provided open-ended survey responses about what they perceived to be the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing healthcare volunteer management. Taken together, these 105 hospitals used a total of 39,008 volunteers and 5.3 million volunteer hours during a 12-month period between 201...

Strategic volunteer management planning and implementation in Scottish third sector organisations: understanding the volunteer psychological contract

Patient-centered Care and Mindfulness in Hospice Volunteer

Hospice agencies provide comforting care and improved quality of life for terminally ill patients who choose to cease curative treatments. Hospice volunteers offer social, informational, and task-oriented support to hospice patients, families, and hospice workers. Law requires that hospice organizations receiving federal reimbursements must involve volunteers in at least 5% of overall patient c...

Volunteer Motivation and Satisfaction

Volunteers are a valuable set of human resources for any sporting event, and various studies have been conducted in different contexts to understand volunteers’ psychological characteristics. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of motivations on individual’s volunteer satisfaction using a modified version of Bang and Chelladurai’s (2003) Volunteer Motivations Scale for Internatio...

A Data-Driven Definition Of Volunteer Types: The Key To Adjusted Volunteer Management Practices

Many seminal contributions have been made in economic, psychology and managerial academic literature that support improvement of volunteer management practices. Despite the great value of this vast amount of academic literature, an important gap still remains regarding generalizability across the many heterogeneous types of volunteers that exist, and for providing concrete recommendations towar...