How do we calculate our observation hours at hospitals with multiple settings?

[Birdoftruth]

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I am at a hospital that PTCAS would consider multiple settings. It is Inpatient: Acute Care | Rehab/Sub-acute | Nursing home | Psychiatric. We are also Outpatient. I have a total of 60 hours at the hospital and there wasn't just an even split of 10-10-10 etc... With the exception of the Psychiatric unit and the inpatient hospital, All the other patients would come into the gym from their rooms and we would not only be dealing with rehab patients but also the folks from nursing home, outpatient, and acute.

With the way PTCAS calculates each setting they stack the hours. So If put 60 hours in each slot, it adds them up and I end up with like 240 hours.

How would you input this since patients of all settings are in there at all times?

 

[AlexFLA]

I would estimate how many hours you did in each dept. within the hospital, so long as your final total is 60 you should be good

 

[Birdoftruth]

I would estimate how many hours you did in each dept. within the hospital, so long as your final total is 60 you should be good

What I am saying is that their is no real separate departments with the exception of psychiatric and inpatient hospital. Everything else is overlapped because you have rehab, acute, outpatient, nursing home, and sub-acute all coming in at the same time to the same gym

 

[MFS6]

I would probably just split them all evenly so that your total is still 60.

 

[megi1212]

I am going through the similar situation where I am volunteering in Acute Therapy and observing different types of people with different injuries. I like the idea of estimating whatever hours I contributed in each dept. Thnx for asking this question.