Your Story. Your Voice. Be Heard.
Cynthia Lockrey shares her insights and experience as a patient advocate and her patient advocacy work. Blog posts include topics such as patient storytelling, working with healthcare professionals and advocating for children.
As a responsible member of the community, there’s no getting around volunteering out of obligation. But when looking at how you spend the majority of your volunteer hours, and where you want to make a true difference, you need to ensure you’re volunteering with passion not obligation.
Read MoreAs we start a new year, now is the perfect time to hit pause and reflect on the volunteer roles you hold. Do they spark your passion? Are you making a difference? Or is it time to cut ties and move on?
Read MoreWe volunteer because we’re passionate about an organization or a cause. But how often do we take the time to establish and share our boundaries to ensure we have the energy to continue volunteering?
Read MoreWhat motivates patients to volunteer? It’s not prestige or money but the desire to either right a wrong or improve the healthcare system by seeing the world from a patient’s perspective. If we truly want to have a variety of patient voices heard, we need to do the work to ensure any barriers to participation are removed and we value their voices.
Read MoreThere is much debate online about whether or not patient should receive financial compensation for volunteering. Particularly when it comes to speaking at conferences or sitting on a healthcare committee, where everyone else in the room is being paid to attend. It’s about valuing and respecting patient voices, and the time they give (preparing, travelling, meeting).
Read MoreTo transform healthcare, we need to hear from ALL demographics. Too often people wait until they retire to volunteer. This means the voices of millennials, parents with school-aged children and recent empty nesters are underrepresented.
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Training videos, e-books and books to provide advice, tools and insight into the world of patient engagement as an advocate and volunteer.
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