Reflection Of Volunteering At The Royal Springs Rehabilitation Center

I have started to volunteer from the last week of June 2016 at the Royal Springs Rehabilitation center, in Las Vegas. This facility has 350 beds, occupied mainly by many disabled residents. The volunteering at the activity department of this center provided me with an opportunity to serve the residents as well as the employees of this facility. Volunteering helps connect with people, promotes the personal growth and efficiency, and also helps build the community (The University California, San Diego, 2015). It resembles the servant leadership style in that, both functions to serve the people for the betterment of others. It helped me understand that it is through serving, the servant leader actually leads the team. In this facility, I helped

The foresight and awareness about listening, let me spent the majority of my time with the residents during my volunteering. As listening to the concerns and pent-up emotions could help relieve the tensions of people, I listened and talked to them. The encouragement to talk and relieve the stress, helped many of them to vent their emotions. My timely appreciations on the residents’ initiative to accomplish tasks helped nurture their spirit. The empathy I felt towards them made me persuade the residents to get involved in the diversional activities conducted by the center. This action helped heal many depressed and withdrawn residents. They started to talk and request to bring them for these activities. As a good steward, I initiated to help the employees and relieved them from many of the direct resident care activities. This gave them adequate time to complete their other tasks which were time-bound, like documentation and resident interviews. These actions reduced the stress on staff and enabled me to build a good community