Step 1
- Review all the volunteer opportunities below.
- You will have the opportunity to pick your top 3 choices from the list below:
- Activity Assistant (Hospital School/Summer Camp)
- Navigator
- Pediatric Visual Arts
- Performing Art Volunteer
- Resource Center
- Visiting Adult Inpatients
- Waiting Room Volunteer
Activity Assistant (Hospital School/Summer Camp)
The Hospital School provides academic services to outpatient and inpatient students in grades Pre-K to 12. Volunteers will help with the organization and implementation of Summer Camps including packing activity kits and working with children to do the activities.
Commitment & Available Shifts:
- Volunteers must be able to volunteer Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, for at least two of the weeks listed below:
- June 17 to June 21, 2024
- June 24 to June 28, 2024
- July 15 to July 19, 2024
- August 5 to August 9, 2024
- Volunteers must also be able to attend the mandatory training and create activity kits on Tuesday, June 11, 2024 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
Navigator
Volunteers will serve as a very important point person for patients and visitors, personally guiding and directing patients to appointments, providing information, directions and way finding to patients and visitors, helping patients and visitors locate resources or directing them to the appropriate source if they have a problem or question. Volunteers will also deliver flowers and gifts to the front desk of each unit, not to the patient’s rooms. Volunteers are expected to offer a very high level of customer service, serving as an extension of the professional team.
Commitment & Available Shifts:
- Must commit to 4 hours per week (two, 2-hour shifts) for a minimum of 50 hours during summer 2024.
- Monday to Friday
- 7:30 am to 9:30 am
- 9:30 am to 11:30 am
- 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
- 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm
- 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
- 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
- Saturdays and Sundays
- 8:00 am to 10:00 am
- 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
- 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm
- 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
- 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Pediatric Visual Arts
Volunteer provides positive educational art activities for pediatric patients, siblings, and parents waiting for or receiving treatment. Provide an opportunity for using art for creative expression and socialization and as a coping mechanism, to assist with reducing stress, anxiety and depression and to assist with normalizing the hospital experience, including the outpatient experience.
Commitment & Available Shifts:
- Must commit to 6 hours per week (two, 3-hour shifts) for a minimum of 50 hours during summer 2024.
- Monday to Friday
- 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Performing Artist
Volunteers will be playing instrumental music for adults and child patient populations, their loved ones and staff in public spaces (waiting areas, concourse areas and lobbies) to ease the stress of a hospital visit or stay. No vocal music is featured for the public space performances. Volunteers will promote the recognition of the importance of the arts-specifically music-in lowering blood pressure and creating a positive distraction. Volunteers must have excellent Live Music Performing skills and be able to perform music for a 2 hour shift (you do not need 2 hours of solo music, the shifts are broken into two 50-minute sets that can be repeated)
Commitment & Available Shifts:
- Must commit to 4 hours per week (two, 2-hour shifts) for a minimum of 50 hours during summer 2024.
- Monday to Friday
- 2-hour shift between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm
Resource Center
Volunteers will aid patients, families, and staff in finding information and referral services related to cancer and our supportive services. In addition, the volunteer will welcome patients and families to a quiet place to wait while at the Duke Cancer Institute and listen to patients’ and families’ concerns.
Commitment & Available Shifts:
- Must commit to 4 hours per week for a minimum of 50 hours during summer 2024.
- Tuesday, Thursdays, and Fridays
- 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Visiting Adult Inpatients
The opportunities listed in this category involve visiting our adult inpatients. If you choose this assignment, you will be placed in one of the volunteers programs listed. You will not have the ability to choose a specific program. Volunteer Services will make the decision based on our needs and your availability.
Waiting Room Volunteers (Outpatient)
The opportunities listed in this category involve volunteering in various waiting rooms. If you choose this assignment, you will be placed in one of the volunteers programs listed. You will not have the ability to choose a specific program. Volunteer Services will make the decision based on our needs and your availability.
Step 2
- Complete a Volunteer Application by 4:00 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
- Note: Volunteer opportunities will be limited and not all students will have the opportunity to volunteer for the summer 2024 semester. (moving this info from current page)
- Obtaining your health clearance does not guarantee that you will be accepted into the volunteer program. The number of openings, your interview, your availability, and your choice of volunteer assignment will impact our decision.