Teenage Volunteers

Listen to a Volunteer
Why Volunteering
Our Departments
Steps to Becoming a Volunteer

 Listen to a Volunteer

"My past four years as a Teenage Volunteer atGrove City Medical Center has truly been a life-changing event.  I have worked in almost every department of the hospital and have had the opportunity to work with many different people.
    As I entered this program in my freshman year of high school, I was looking forward for a direction as where to go with a career.   Volunteering has helped me decide that the medical field is the right choice for me.  It has also given me great experience for my future.
    The two departments I enjoyed helping in most are the gift shop and the third floor nursing department.  My most memorable moment from the gift shop is blowing up close to twenty balloons for the patients and having them all float away..." Allissa

Why Volunteering

  • Learn about careers
  • Learn to work with all kinds of people  
  • Learn new skills
  • Develop better communication skills
  • Learn to be proactive
  • Build your resume

 Our Departments

Gift Shop

"Our shop is staffed by volunteers and the proceeds are donated to the hospital for the purchase of new equipment."
Read more about this department.

Here volunteers are able to operate the cash register,
help with restocking food and drink items and replenishing the balloon supply. Excellent customer service skills are extremely important.

Ambulatory Surgery

"The Ambulatory Care Center is for the comfort and convenience of patients who have surgery or outpatient treatment procedures and are discharged on the same day."
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Making and stripping beds in the recovery or ambulatory surgery rooms is one of the various tasks in the Ambulatory Surgery Department. Other volunteer responsibilities are: Serving refreshments, transporting patients,
folding gowns and making linen packs, and assisting with
clerical duties.

Physical Therapy
"The main goal is to restore each patient to his or her maximum function and independence."
Read more about this department.

The nurse in this picture is filling an ultrasound bottle. This is one of the volunteers' duties in the Physical Therapy department. You'll also handle patient charts, distribute linens to patient rooms, cut theraband strips, fill and empty cryocuff jugs, and help with other activities.

Acute Care Nursing

Patient care is ensured through
a broad range of hospital services.
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Together with the patient the nurse in this picture is looking at a book the patient brought
from home.  Keeping patients company is one important task for volunteers in the nursing department. You'll also help with tidying up patient rooms,
preparing patients for meals, passing out meals, with
clerical and other duties.

Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Department is
responsible for providing medication to GCMC patients.

Volunteers assist in prepackaging
medications, filling orders and distributing medication to our nursing units.

Transitional Care Center

"TCC is committed to helping residents make the transition from hospital to home."
Read more about this department.

Visiting and socializing as well as helping with activities with patients are important tasks for volunteers in the TCC.
You could also be asked to pass ice or water and meal trays to the patients,
to ask them if they need anything from
the hostess shop, distribute linens and tidy up patients' rooms.

Steps to Becoming a Volunteer