EC hours question

[shuhui]

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Hi! I'm asking this for a friend who's currently volunteering at a hospital, but there was a good amount of time (~30 hrs) where she did not interact with patients and was mostly just transporting biological specimens back and forth between floors. Could she list those 30 hrs as non clinical? Also, is it allowed to list projected volunteering hours on your application?

 

[givesumacceptpls]

Did she handle smelly urine samples, or was able to take a puff of the stuff?
I am asking because this is a good opportunity to see how far we can stretch the folk rule of "if close enough to smell, then clinical."

 

[Peter Pan.]

If you are mostly around patients in your position then its ok if not every hour or second is around patients.

 

[shuhui]

If you are mostly around patients in your position then its ok if not every hour or second is around patients.

Thanks for replying! She is interacting with patients a lot and realizes the experience is mostly clinical volunteering, but she feels like she does not have enough non-clinical hours was wondering if the parts where she doesn't interact with patients in the hospital could be counted as non-clinical volunteering.

 

[Peter Pan.]

Thanks for replying! She is interacting with patients a lot and realizes the experience is mostly clinical volunteering, but she feels like she does not have enough non-clinical hours was wondering if the parts where she doesn't interact with patients in the hospital could be counted as non-clinical volunteering.

Lol no. She is still in a clinical setting.

 

[Catalystik]

Thanks for replying! She is interacting with patients a lot and realizes the experience is mostly clinical volunteering, but she feels like she does not have enough non-clinical hours was wondering if the parts where she doesn't interact with patients in the hospital could be counted as non-clinical volunteering.

An activity with subcomponents can be split into two spaces, each with its own tag and separate hours. But 30 hours of nonclinical volunteering is probably not going to make much difference in an application's success.

 

[LizzyM]

Separating out the time spent in a health care facility that was spent out of the sight of patients can't be called non-clinical. Just no.

Find a non-clinical place where people need help and help them!