The Volunteer Community Outreach Program is a discovery year internship designed to provide IHS and UBD students with real-life experience in caring for stroke patients and they were were under the guidance of PJSC’s MSW Department for 14 weeks.
It aims to develop carer-volunteers for post-stroke patients, exposing students to the carer/caregiver role for selected patients and MSW roles. It focuses on assisting stroke patients with carer issues, focusing on daily living activities such as personal hygiene, eating, mobility, and dressing. Students have also assisted patients in patient-oriented activities, professional communication with patients, families, visitors, colleagues, and doctors, and understand the importance of teamwork in caring for patients.
This program provides students opportunity to gain community-based experience, instill a sense of responsibility, enterprise, reasoning, communication skills, teamwork, and multidisciplinary perspectives.
It serves as a foundation for further research study on the possibility of development to volunteer care service to aid the issue of carer among patients in PJSC and welcoming students from other faculties to participate as part of their community outreach programme.
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