I volunteered at a physical rehabilitation hospital this past summer and was wondering if my experience could be considered clinical volunteering. I understand that the general guideline is, if you're close enough to smell patients, then it can be considered clinical. However, I'm not sure if what I was actually doing can be considered "clinical".
I volunteered in the rehab labs, essentially helping patients with their physical therapy. These were patients in the inpatient units, and I also was responsible for getting them from their rooms to the rehab lab at the right times/seeing if they needed anything in their rooms. So I was definitely close enough to smell them.
However, I've read on here that working with PT patients doesn't "count" as clinical volunteering because physical therapy isn't medicine (or something similar to that, I cannot remember the exact wording). However, these patients are also inpatients in the hospital for various medical reasons. I also shadowed a PM&R attending who was caring for some of the patients I helped. So, can my experience be considered clinical volunteering?
