We do a summer-only program for teens. Our minimum age is 15. We have 3 two-week sessions and the teens volunteer Mon-Fri from 8:30-4:30 for one session. Our program is not huge - about 12 volunteers per session, unless I have more departments request volunteers, which would allow me to accept more. Our teens are assigned to nursing units and mostly assist the nursing assistants and unit secretaries with running errands, restocking supplies, filling water pitchers, serving/picking up meal trays, rounding on patients to do comfort checks and simple fall prevention checks, answering call lights, and wheelchair transport of discharged patients.
Onboarding includes application, 2 references (one teacher, one personal), interview, and orientation (TB test, safety, HIPAA, infection prevention/hand hygiene, and nursing unit orientation).