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Hi everyone, can someone provide some examples of things that would count as ‘clinical volunteering’ versus ‘non-clinical volunteering in a clinical setting?’ I know the old LizzyM adage of “if you can smell the patients, it’s clinical” but I’ve been seeing some posts that indicate clinical experience needs to come from actually being involved in patient care and not simply being around it.
Here are my volunteer tasks at a local hospital. Would some of these count as clinical?
1. Most of the time I pair up with another volunteer and walk around a few patient floors. I introduce myself to patients, engage in conversation, ask if there’s anything I can get or bring up to staff for them, and let them know where to call to find us.
2. Sometimes I greet people at one of the entrances and direct them around the hospital campus. Most of them are coming in for outpatient appointments.
3. Sometimes I help work the front desk. I answer calls from patients (Hi, this is ABC. Can I please have a newspaper/magazine/Wifi help? I’m in room XYZ) and either send a fellow volunteer up or go up myself to assist them.
4. Sometimes I walk around the ED and help nurses deliver blankets and food to admitted people, set up wifi, etc.
5. Sometimes I sit in the nurses’ station in a particular wing and answer the call lights. If a patient wants something simple like a towel or blanket, I get it for them. If it’s something like a snack or water I defer to their nurse.
Here are my volunteer tasks at a local hospital. Would some of these count as clinical?
1. Most of the time I pair up with another volunteer and walk around a few patient floors. I introduce myself to patients, engage in conversation, ask if there’s anything I can get or bring up to staff for them, and let them know where to call to find us.
2. Sometimes I greet people at one of the entrances and direct them around the hospital campus. Most of them are coming in for outpatient appointments.
3. Sometimes I help work the front desk. I answer calls from patients (Hi, this is ABC. Can I please have a newspaper/magazine/Wifi help? I’m in room XYZ) and either send a fellow volunteer up or go up myself to assist them.
4. Sometimes I walk around the ED and help nurses deliver blankets and food to admitted people, set up wifi, etc.
5. Sometimes I sit in the nurses’ station in a particular wing and answer the call lights. If a patient wants something simple like a towel or blanket, I get it for them. If it’s something like a snack or water I defer to their nurse.