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Differentiating recruitment strategies for direct patient care, clerical, and fundraising hospice volunteers
Author(s)Pamela J Kovacs, Beverly Black
Journal titleThe Hospice Journal, vol 12, no 4, 1997
Pagespp 43-56
SourceHaworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA.
KeywordsTerminal care ; Voluntary workers ; Recruitment ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
AnnotationA US survey of direct and non-direct patient care volunteers in two hospice programmes generated information about various aspects of their volunteer experience. This paper focuses on the effectiveness of identified recruitment strategies for direct patient care, clerical, and fundraising volunteers. People learned about the opportunity to volunteer at hospice most frequently from personal experiences, friends and newspapers. Significantly more direct patient care volunteers learned about the volunteer opportunity through newspaper feature stories than did non-direct volunteers. Friends recruited significantly more fundraising volunteers than direct patient care or clerical volunteers. The events triggering direct care and clerical volunteers to serve were most often personal experiences, whereas friends appear to have triggered direct care and fundraising volunteers to serve. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-971209227 A
ClassmarkLV: QV: WK6: 3F: 7T

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