Volunteer management and community work in the health institutions

Course content:

• Volunteer technicians and doctors (all health practitioners) after specified working hours.
• Community members in general volunteer (non-health practitioners) in the health or health-related sectors.
• The important challenges facing health volunteering, including (material and administrative challenges - external challenges - challenges of cultural knowledge).
• Opportunities to activate voluntary work in the health field in different countries.
• The importance of communication between the health sector and all other sectors, especially non-profit sectors (private) to achieve integration between them.
• Some of the main recommendations that may be useful and influential in the areas of health-promoting work.
• The impact of volunteering in hospitals and its many benefits to patients, where volunteers work to strengthen the care provided to patients to return to normal life.
• determine the economic consequences of volunteering, so that volunteer programs receive the assistance, attention and support deserved.
• The contribution of voluntary work in health institutions in strengthening the governmental sector as well as non-profit health institutions to try to reduce and rationalize expenses.
• The impact of visiting volunteers for the patients and talking with them about their health and contributing to their recovery.
• Sick children, who do not have family or friends to visit, need to visit from the volunteers to relieve of them.