Summary: Voluntary Care In Hospice Patients

Volunteers worked with hospice patients to support their emotion, they engaged in conversation with patients, made them laughed, did relaxing things such as looking at old photos, and brushing their hair while they were in the hospice care. They mainly focused their attention on providing emotional support for the patient and their family member as they go through the hospice process instead of the patient's problem. Some volunteers chose to volunteer with the hospice patients because they were motivated to experience the loss of loved one, and others were simply happy to give back to their community. In hospice patients (P) does encouraging patients to share their memories improves their mind-state (I) compared to not reflecting on past experience
The article was qualitative research, level five of evidence because the study was based on interviewing participants to find solution to psychological issues. The study recruited nine British volunteers from ages 21 to 84 year old. The study had more female participants than males, some of the participants were retired with several years of experiences. The volunteers were asked during the interview to talk about their personal experiences in a private area face to face with the researchers. The participants gave their permission to the researchers to record the interview. Since the interview was based on the participants’ experiences, qualitative design was used to collect data on things that they thought were an essential aspect of volunteering. This gave them an opportunity to speak about several things they found helpful to patient. Grounded theory was an act of theoretic framework based on the data instead of imposed from the limited pre-existing literature. The researchers used this theory to analyze data manually to prevent software problems such as losing format, and enable to recognize sentence when coding (Elliott & Umeh, 2013). The authors used this theory to analyze the volunteer’s personal experience in the hospice care to eliminate any assumption people may have about the study since it was qualitative research
Some of the volunteers provided services like brushing patient’s hair and assisting them in their activity to help them stay calm and relax. Volunteers took hospice patient’s emotion very serious, and they did their best to help them feel better by doing simple thing such as getting their manicure and hair done. The main reason for the article was to examine psychological problems volunteers had to deal with while they were in hospice care. The study was qualitative research and level five of evidence because the interview was based on the interviewees’ experience with hospice patients, and the authors used qualitative design which allowed volunteers to talk about the things they had experience. Then, grounded theory was used during data collecting to analyze interviewees’ statement about their experience to eliminate any bias about the study. This article gave several ways nurses can used to help hospice patient and their