Per Diem Nurses

• There are opportunities for nurses with hospice experience to join on our call roster. This would include availability to fill an occasional eight hour weekday shift as well as to be on call for an entire weekend a few times a year. Training is provided.

Board of Directors

• We are currently seeking applications from caring people to serve on the board of directors, particularly those with expertise in development and fund raising.
• The board is responsible for defining Shepherd Home’s mission and provides overall leadership and strategic direction to the organization in association with the Shepherd Home staff.  Further, the board:
  
  
  1. actively set policy and ensure that the organization has adequate resources to carry out its mission;
  2. provide direct oversight and direction for the executive director and evaluates her performance;
  3. evaluate its own effectiveness as a governing body, as a group of volunteers, and as representatives of the community in upholding the public interest served by the organization, and,
  • members actively serve on at least one working volunteer committee:
    • Community, Public Relations & Information Systems
    • Facilities
    • Finance 
    • Fund Raising
    • Human Relations
    • Operation of Home & Resident Care
      
      

Wish List

Financial contributions are greatly appreciated and are applied directly to resident care and maintenance of the Shepherd Home.  Other specific items we can put to good use include:

• Staples gift cards: we can use these to purchase office supplies.
• Apple iPad: we plan to make an iPad available to our residents, many of whom are computer-shy, to provide an easy way to communicate with distant family and friends via email and Skype, to read (or listen) to books and other publications, and to entertain themselves with games, music, movies, and other multi-media apps. We also plan to use an iPad for internal use to process credit cards less expensively than our current system and to use for presentations about Shepherd Home, among other possibilities.
• Paper supplies:  we always need TP and paper towels.