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Tiered Student Volunteer Approach

  • 1.  Tiered Student Volunteer Approach

    Posted 03-23-2020 09:04:00 AM
    Dear All, 

    We developed the approach below to match volunteer opportunities with the needs of our hospital system and our local public health strategies driven by the burden of disease - refining the tiers as the situation changes. We are currently in Tier 1 as social distancing is critical to our context at this time.  The group managing this includes a faculty member lead, students from each class, our director of service learning, associate dean and director for student affairs,  and our dean for strategic relations. All decisions on tiering and when we shift from one tier to another are vetted through the senior associate dean for education, associate dean for student Affairs, and the Quinnipiac University COVID-19 Task Force.  

    I – no risk – from home

    M1, M2, M3, M4

    Creating cards/posters/videos of encouragement

    Call center staffing from home

    Call center staffing if proper social distancing is guaranteed

    Check in calls to particularly vulnerable patients and/or to staff who were exposed – M3's

    FISH of greater New haven – delivering groceries

    Hamden Mobile Food Pantry – Dunbar Hill School – pack and distribute groceries

    Town of East Haven – senior meal delivery

    Mindful Responder – yoga therapy

    Additional  grocery delivery needs
    Mask making 

    II - low risk and minimal human contact  

    M1, M2, M3, M4

    Call center staffing / phone call triage

    *St. Mary's / Trinity Health System – urgent need – algorithm based – in non-clinical

    area of the hospital

    *St. Mary's Telehealth (on FaceTime?) suggested but students are not allowed to give medical advice (can triage?) -

    Support Occ Health service calls on COVID-19 – M4's

    Check in calls to particularly vulnerable patients and/or to staff who were exposed – M3's

    Errands for caregivers or extended families, such as grocery shopping, pharmacy etc

    Dog walking and/or pet care

    Blood bank donations: American Red Cross

    'R Kids Family Center – transporting meals to families and sanitizing toys

     

    III – potential for human contact (this will change to higher tier as the number of COVID-19 positive patients increase in our community)

    M1, M2, M3, M4

    Childcare

    Child care needs of "mission-critical on-site" staff during COVID-19 outbreak

    YNHHS and the greater medical community are responding to the rapidly evolving child care needs of employees in mission-critical roles whose work requires them to be on-site at a YNHHS, Yale Medicine or Yale Health facility during the COVID-19 outbreak.

     Meal preparation

    Essential transportation needs for family members

    UW: Downtown evening soup kitchen: preparing food, distributing food, washing dishes

     

    IV – non-clinical but in hospital or office setting

    M1, M2, M3, M4

    Staff support in non-clinical dept of hospital or office practice (eg, information desk)

    Duties usually performed by hospital volunteers

     

    V – clinical and direct human contact

    M3 and M4

    Thermal imaging of hospital or office entrants

    Screening questions at hospital entry,
    IV's, blood draws etc



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    Lyuba Konopasek
    Senior Associate Dean for Education
    Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, Quinnipiac
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