Volunteer Partnership With Community College Nursing Program

In early 2014, CMC-Mercy, a 196 licensed bed hospital began experiencing a shortage of nurses and requests increased for volunteers. With successful engagement with the local community college, the nursing student volunteers fulfilled a volunteer role, which set them at the forefront with patients, families and staff. As of this date, 48% of the nursing student volunteers are current teammates of our hospital system.

Learning Objectives:

• Learner will become more aware of new recruiting goals
• By attending this presentation, the learner will be able to discuss long term outcomes of utilizing a nursing class program
• Learner will be able to discuss alternate solutions to volunteer requests.

Speakers: Shelly Dul, Volunteer Coordinator, Carolinas Medical Center - Mercy, Charlotte, NC