Healthcare & College Student Hospice Internship

Gain Meaningful Healthcare Experience While Making a Difference

Organization: A Serene Healthcare Services

Location: Greater Houston / Stafford, Texas

Opportunity Type: Nonclinical Internship — In-person + limited office/remote opportunities

Schedule: Flexible

Are you a college student preparing for a career in nursing, medicine, social work, psychology, public health, healthcare administration, or another helping profession?

A Serene Healthcare Services is seeking compassionate students interested in gaining meaningful healthcare and hospice internship experience while supporting hospice patients, families, and our interdisciplinary team.

No previous healthcare or hospice experience is required. Training is provided.

What You Can Do

Depending on your interests, availability, training, and assigned internship responsibilities, student interns may assist with:

• Patient companionship and social visits
• Reading, conversation, games, and music
• Legacy and life-story projects
• Friendly telephone check-ins
• Caregiver support activities
• Bereavement cards and remembrance projects
• Administrative and office projects
• Patient activity projects
• Veteran recognition activities
• Volunteer-program support
• Special hospice projects

Patient-facing assignments focus on companionship and nonclinical support.

Perfect for Students Interested In

• Nursing / Pre-Nursing
• Pre-Med / Medicine
• Physician Assistant Studies
• Social Work
• Psychology
• Counseling
• Public Health
• Healthcare Administration
• Health Sciences
• Gerontology
• Occupational or Physical Therapy
• Pharmacy
• Human Services
• Other healthcare and helping professions

Students from all majors are welcome to express interest.

What You'll Gain

A hospice internship gives students an opportunity to strengthen important professional skills, including:

• Compassionate communication
• Active listening
• Patient-centered interaction
• Healthcare professionalism
• Cultural sensitivity
• Confidentiality and HIPAA awareness
• Professional boundaries
• Understanding hospice and end-of-life care
• Supporting patients and families during serious illness
• Healthcare administrative experience
• Reliability and accountability in a healthcare setting
• Working appropriately within an interdisciplinary healthcare environment

This internship offers an opportunity to learn an important lesson that cannot always be taught in a classroom: How to care for the person—not just the diagnosis.

Flexible Around School

We understand that students balance classes, exams, work, clinical schedules, and other responsibilities.

Internship opportunities may include:

• Weekly assignments
• Twice-monthly assignments
• Scheduled office projects
• Special projects
• Limited remote assignments
• Patient-support activities
• Flexible assignments based on organizational needs

Interns are expected to communicate consistently, maintain professionalism, and honor assignments they accept.

Need Internship or Service Hours? A Serene Healthcare Services tracks completed service and may verify documented internship and service hours when applicable.

Students completing hours for a:

• College or university
• Academic program
• Scholarship
• Honor society
• Student organization
• Professional-school application
• Community-service requirement

Students should confirm their program's specific requirements before beginning.

If your school requires an internship agreement, learning objectives, evaluation form, supervisor verification, or other documentation, please disclose those requirements during the application process so they can be reviewed before placement.

Nonclinical Healthcare Internship

This is a nonclinical hospice internship and is not a nursing clinical rotation, physician shadowing program, or substitute for required clinical education.

Student interns do not independently:

• Administer medications
• Perform medical procedures
• Provide medical advice
• Conduct clinical assessments
• Take on licensed clinical responsibilities
• Provide hands-on personal care
• Perform nursing duties
• Make treatment decisions
• Transport patients unless separately authorized

Instead, interns gain experience through patient interaction, healthcare professionalism, hospice operations, administrative projects, family-support activities, and meaningful human connection.

Basic Requirements

Applicants should be:

• Compassionate
• Dependable
• Respectful
• Professional
• Willing to learn
• Comfortable interacting with patients and families when assigned
• Able to follow directions and organizational policies
• Willing to maintain strict patient confidentiality
• Able to maintain appropriate professional boundaries

Interns participating in patient-facing assignments must be at least 18 years old.

Interns must complete required onboarding, which may include:

• Internship/volunteer application
• Interview
• Screening and background requirements
• Hospice orientation
• Confidentiality/HIPAA training
• Assignment-specific training

Additional requirements may apply depending on the internship assignment.

Why Choose a Hospice Internship?

If you're considering a career helping people, hospice allows you to experience one of the most important parts of healthcare:

Being present.

During your internship, you may:

• Spend time talking with a patient about their favorite music
• Help someone preserve an important memory
• Play cards or complete an activity with someone who could use company
• Help prepare a remembrance project for a grieving family
• Assist with a healthcare administrative project
• Learn how a hospice organization supports patients and families
• Observe how compassion, communication, and professionalism shape the patient experience
• Simply sit and listen

Small moments can have an incredible impact.

Start Building Experience That Matters

You don't need to know everything about healthcare.

You don't need to know exactly what to say.

You need to be willing to: Listen. Learn. Show up. Be kind. Be professional. Be dependable.

We'll provide the training and guidance needed for your assigned role.

📍 A Serene Healthcare Services

10701 Corporate Dr., Suite 391

Stafford, TX 77477

Phone: (832) 532-7953

Website: www.aserenehealthcare.com

Ready to Gain Meaningful Healthcare Experience?

Please express your interest in this internship posting.

A member of the A Serene Healthcare Services team will review your submission and contact selected applicants regarding the application, interview, screening, orientation, training, and available internship assignments.

Build experience. Learn healthcare beyond the classroom. Serve your community. Make a meaningful difference.