Can I include hours volunteering in nursing home if they were done during high school?

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I recently moved back home, and am thinking of volunteering at a nursing home I worked at during shigh school. I did about 80 hours over a summer my junior year of highschool, and I plan on applying to med school this June.

If I start volunteering now, can I include the hours I did in high school?

Also can I list this as clinical volunteering? There's a staff of nurses that provide care 24/7 to the residents who live there - but I'm not sure whether this can be considered "patient experience."

 

[swearonmemum]

-this counts as clinical volunteering
-dont list your high school hours

 

[PursuingHappy]

Is it okay to list hours done after graduating from high school but right before starting college? The summer before entering college?

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[AlfonsTheGuru]

Why not?

 

[whatever5]

I know some schools just ask about everything you've done in the past 5 years, so for those schools you could add it in.

 

[Catalystik]

Is it okay to list hours done after graduating from high school but right before starting college? The summer before entering college?

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Yes.

 

[Catalystik]

Also can I list this as clinical volunteering? There's a staff of nurses that provide care 24/7 to the residents who live there - but I'm not sure whether this can be considered "patient experience."

It depends on your role.

 

[LizzyM]

there is no law against listing HS stuff, more of an unwritten SDN rule.
If you volunteered in, let's say 2010-2011 and you go back there this summer you could list it in the experience section as a single experience with two separate time frames. No harm in doing that and it shows that you didn't just check a box in HS and move on but went back for additional service as an adult.

I have an internal debate with myself about whether nursing home service is clinical or not. Some adcoms will assess this liberally and even if you were playing piano for the residents to listen to they will count it as "clinical" whereas others will consider calling bingo numbers, playing the piano or helping with craft projects to be non-clinical volunteering (some adcoms highly value that and some LOVE when you work with older folks) so which ever way you label it you are going to be okay. Just don't let it be your only clinical exposure.