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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Eight Hospice of the Rapidan trainees graduated and were certified last week as Hospice volunteers. After 25 hours of training, they are now ready for the real learning experience to begin.
Lorraine Robson, the executive director of Hospice of the Rapidan, explained that the purpose of the training period is to help the volunteer develop the ability to relate to terminally ill patients and their families.
There are three goals that the volunteers help the patients to reach using their training and their own ability to listen. The volunteers help the patients to achieve the maximum control possible over their lives, to deal with the physical and emotional pain of the illness and to enrich the life that they have left.
Hospice volunteers can choose to work as a speaker, in the Hospice office, public relations, fund raising or on a one to one basis with the terminally ill. Robson said that the volunteers who work on a one to one basis provide secondary care for the patients, and that the patient must also have a source of primary care.
Joyce Abell of Woodville was one of the trainees who graduated last week. “The main reason I got involved with the Hospice program is because for a long time I’ve been disturbed about the way people die in this country,” Abell said. “We need to start thinking much more about the quality of people’s lives and the quality of their dying.”
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