St. David's Medical Center Mission Statement

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I want to volunteer at St. David’s Medical Center because the mission statement to “To provide exceptional care to every patient every day with a spirit of warmth, friendliness, and personal pride.” lines up with the reasons why I want to volunteer and aid others. A lot of hospitals have the mindset of just helping individuals, but collectively society has often failed to recognize that these are more than just patients that we are dealing with. They have more than just a body to take care of but they have a soul to take care of as well. I desire to aid people and improve a patient's’ health, not just for the summer but for the rest of my life. Helping others improve their health would allow me to be more at ease and allow other individuals to know that I constantly want to help.
Volunteering at a hospital allows me to broaden my horizons, working with others who have more knowledge or different backgrounds could lead me to a lifelong of friends that I might not have known had I not volunteered. I also hope to explore medical careers since I desire to have a career in the health- related field. Volunteering at a hospital would give me an experience to see how medical professionals use what they learned in school and applied into the
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Patients never sign up to be in a hospital and deserve the most respect and attention so that they would feel cared for in their situation. Patients who feel this sort of “exceptional care” would be more likely to comply with instructions by letting them realize that the hospital is a place that they can feel at ease with. Patients should not feel like their caretakers are constantly monitoring their every actions but by letting patients know that the caretakers treat them with genuine politeness will make patients become willing to follow instructions naturally without “forcing”