Ulmer, Deborah - IUPUI

• Helps us to understand more about nurses and their
determination in the volunteer role.
• Stories support the literature presented about compassion
and volunteerism.
• Nurses will continue to volunteer in these kinds of events.
• There is work to be done to prepare for those who volunteer
so that their skills can be utilized.
• Nurses can be helped to understand that nursing is more
than scope of practice.
• Nurses who do this are almost always changed as a result of
the experience.
• The relationship between the nurse and the patient,
whomever the patient is and whatever the work of the nurse
is, is significant.
• For these nurses, their response was a calling.