DO NOT :
• Accept money from a patient or family • Lend money to a patient or family • Do the person’s banking • Agree to be a person’s power of attorney • Agree to witness a patient’s will • Share personal information about previous personal experiences with the deaths of other patients • Discuss a patient’s diagnosis or prognosis with other family members • Discuss or talk about a patient or family with others in the community • Provide medical care (e.g. give medications) to a patient who is uncomfortable • Discuss assisted suicide with a patient • Gossip about other members of the care team • Preach, proselytize or attempt to save or convert a patient to the volunteer’s particular religious beliefs • Counsel or advise the person or family member • Become romantically involved with anyone in the household. THINK TWICE ABOUT: • Buying a gift for a patient or family member • Lending things to the person or family • Sharing personal information about one’s self that is unrelated to previous experiences with death and dying • Giving a business card to a patient or family • Inviting a patient or family to join in an activity or party outside the volunteer assignment • Breaking down emotionally in front of a patient or family (It’s okay to be human but the patient and family should not be comforting the volunteer.) • Attending a patient’s medical appointment • Providing opinions or advice to a patient/family.
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