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[Goro]

Yes, patients are patients.

 

[LizzyM]

Frankly, I'd classify it as employment. I guess "employment, clinical" if that's the designation now as "patients are patients" as Goro noted.

 

[ChrisMack390]

Thanks, will it be an issue if a nurse is supervising me and I never see the attending physician?

Irrelevant as long as you have other time spent with physicians.

 

[ua2011]

Yes of course this is clinical experience. I have worked as a BHT now for three years, but I work in a general medical hospital (county hospital). not a psych facility. I work with undeserved populations. I basically monitor patients who are in the ED or admitted into the hospital (I float to all the hospital floors-Peds, PedsED, OBGYN, IM, ED, Burn Center) and monitor their behavior, vital signs, check their blood sugar, and provide companionship. An order is basically placed for patients who may be high risk=suicide, psych hold, fall risk. The hospital I work in is a teaching hospital and I get to see the medicine team and other staff all the time because its basically like shadowing the patient around everywhere they go. Its a great learning experience and I get to appreciate the medical and psych side. Its also a very flexible job!

 

[mcatjelly]

I've also been a psych tech at a state facility for a forensic population. It's absolutely clinical experience, and I've been fortunate enough to force my way into more meaningful interactions with the clinical staff (i.e. unit psychiatrists) because I'm so passionate about the field.

There are so few other opportunities out there where you get this level of patient contact with (relatively) so little training.