Hey guys I have a quick question,
I'm currently looking for a volunteer position at a hospital and the one at my university has 2 open positions.
One working front desk and one ER. Obviously the ER one sounds better but in reality it is awful. You pretty much just stand around for 4 hours, make the occasional bed, and go home. There is next to no patient contact. There is also one working at the front desk directing patients where I would be much more engaged and actually talking to people, but on paper sounds much less clinical.
What would you guys recommend? If it makes a difference I have a good amount of hours as an EMT (about 500) where I started out doing mainly transfers but now I am working a 911 ambulance service so I get plenty of contact with patients that way.
Someone told me to forget about hospital volunteering since I have other patient experience and focus on non-clinical. But I would feel uneasy applying with such little hospital volunteering as it seems like everyone has it.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm currently looking for a volunteer position at a hospital and the one at my university has 2 open positions.
One working front desk and one ER. Obviously the ER one sounds better but in reality it is awful. You pretty much just stand around for 4 hours, make the occasional bed, and go home. There is next to no patient contact. There is also one working at the front desk directing patients where I would be much more engaged and actually talking to people, but on paper sounds much less clinical.
What would you guys recommend? If it makes a difference I have a good amount of hours as an EMT (about 500) where I started out doing mainly transfers but now I am working a 911 ambulance service so I get plenty of contact with patients that way.
Someone told me to forget about hospital volunteering since I have other patient experience and focus on non-clinical. But I would feel uneasy applying with such little hospital volunteering as it seems like everyone has it.
Any help would be appreciated.