Our mission is to reduce landfill waste to decrease Healthcare's carbon footprint.

The primary aim of our project is to promote sustainable healthcare. Participants will sort, quality check, fold, and transport, retrieve, package, and ship unused, but clean operating room supplies to our partnered hospitals and clinics via a nonprofit organization, and sterile wrap for recycling. Clean medical equipment designated for single use in our hospitals is diverted from landfills for use in recipient countries. Recycling blue wrap will significantly reduce the landfill waste coming out of our operating rooms, reducing the environmental impact of delivering care, and turning waste into valuable material.

Our volunteers, 16 years and older, will be available for sorting, identifying, and packaging critical medical supplies. Volunteers must work effectively in a team and demonstrate good communication and leadership skills to lead more prominent groups. Attention to detail is essential to ensure sensitive equipment is packed correctly and safely for shipment to communities in need around the world. Volunteers can contribute meaningfully to improving global healthcare inequities and decreasing the carbon footprint of Stanford Children's Hospital.

For more information about this specific volunteer program, please email: Theresa Young tyoung@stanfordchildrens.org.

When a Chariot volunteer brings a VR headset to play with a patient, they take the child on wild and fun adventures far away from the confines of their hospital room. Volunteers engage our patients in VR and tablet-based games and facilitate play sessions with our robotic dog, Loona. Volunteers should feel comfortable using technology, but the Chariot team will provide volunteers with all necessary training on VR games and other technologies. A familiarity with VR is a plus, but not necessary.

Program Goals:
Children's Home Pharmacy (CHP) transitions patients from the hospital to their home to continue infusion therapy. Patients and caregivers are taught to safely administer various therapies including hydration, IV antibiotics, parenteral nutrition, enteral nutrition and other injectable medications.

Location:
4600 Bohannon, 1st Floor, Menlo Park 94025

Qualifications:
Must have excellent communication skills, sensitivity and good judgment
Ability to use resources effectively in providing information
Good organizational skills
Ability to interact with staff in a non-judgmental, non-intrusive manner
Self-starter with the ability to observe and/or seek out when or where assistance is needed
Willing to be trained on basic computer skills and take direction as needed
Shifts are 5 hours long

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities are primarily clerical. Filing, organizing, special projects as needed. Possibly assist with pulling deliveries together. Assist with billing issues.

Benefit to Volunteer:

• Learn and become familiar with home pharmacy operations


• Opportunity to learn about medications, therapies and disease states


• Sit in daily clinical rounds as patients are reviewed


• Develop/improve communication skills relating to customer relations and problem solving

Department: Creative Arts

Program Goal: Provide storytelling activities for patients and their families in the inpatient care units

Location: Patient Library with circulation throughout the inpatient units.

Schedule: 2-3 hour shifts, Monday - Friday

Qualifications:

• Must have strong people skills (bilingual a plus)


• Willingness to volunteer in an often emotionally sensitive and busy setting


• Must be a self-starter who is also willing to follow instructions


• Ability to handle clerical tasks with careful attention to detail


• An understanding of child development and an enthusiasm for reading and storytelling are essential

Responsibilities

• Visit assigned patients on inpatient units and read to them, age-appropriate books at the bedside


• Interact with patients and their families, providing books and play activities whenever appropriate


• Maintain channels of communication with library staff

Orientation/Training
After completing both general volunteer orientation and the library interview and orientation, library staff will arrange a 2-hour, individualized, hands-on training with a volunteer "partner" already in the program. Periodic in-services are provided at which volunteer contributions are recognized, acknowledged, and changes in policies and procedures are discussed. All volunteers are encouraged to attend. A Library Volunteer Manual is maintained and updated as an easy reference to volunteer policies and procedures.

Ronald McDonald House/Happy Wheels Hospitality Cart:
Provide comfort items to patients, siblings, families and visitors in common areas of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford from a rolling cart sponsored by RMH at Stanford. Sorting, loading and transporting cart with items to Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. Facilitation of simple craft and/or other activities with children and parents. Communicate with RMH staff about response to items on the cart. Wear specified Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford identification and RMH "uniform" while in the hospital.

Volunteer must sign up as a volunteer with Ronald McDonald House and SMCH volunteer. This is a shared service between both organizations.

Qualifications:
Minimum age of 18 years
Minimum commitment of 6-12 months
Strong people and communication skills
Excellent clerical skills: typing, filing and computer data entry
Careful attention to details
Bilingual a plus, able to work with diverse hospital population

Scheduled Shifts:
2 hour shift, 1 day a week

The staff of the neonatal units acknowledge the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of each infant in the high technology environment. Our Cuddlers assist us in providing the caring touch and nurturance that is essential to optimize human social development.

This program recruits approximately 30 volunteers, once a year. To be placed on the waitlist, you must first register and complete the orientation and complete the interview and onboarding process. Currently, the waitlist is at least 2 years long.

Qualifications
Minimum age of 21 years
Minimum commitment of 1 year
Emotional maturity, good interpersonal skills
Good physical health
Ability to maintain confidentiality
Sensitivity, open mind, commitment and dependability
Assertive and flexible

Scheduled Shifts:
3 - 4 hour shift, 1 day a week
5:00AM - 1:00AM, Monday through Sunday