How would I list this clinical volunteering activity?

[Anathema]

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A relative is the medical director or a nursing home and has his own practice within the same hospital (different branches). In high school I volunteered in the nursing home portion and in college I volunteered in his office/practice.

The office/practice volunteering mostly consisted of filing up paperwork and inputting patient information. My computer place was right next to the reception area and patients would ask me for their lab results which I would print out and give to them (does that count as smelling the patients?) and occasionally I would help wheel a patient or direct one to the checkup room while the nurse was busy with another patient. The other big thing is because of my relative's schedule and my dependence on their transportation and me not having anything better to do, I would volunteer in this place for 8+ hours a day for maybe 3-4 times a week for a couple months at a time. This obviously is racking up alot of hours and I'm worried it might seem suspicious.

Would these go under the same volunteering category because they occurred in the same building or different ones? If they do count as the same I would include my high school time but if they aren't I would just include the college part in the practice.

 

[ModernAlchemist]

I don't believe they count as the same. They are different experiences and being under the same organization head does not mean they are the same. I would say that you can include the college experience as clinical volunteering because you did interact with patients. If they ask about it, be honest about what you did.

 

[Anathema]

How would this count towards longevity? Since they're in different departments will I not be able to say that I've been helping in the hospital from high school to college?

 

[Ismet]

I'm not sure if the administrative role would even count as clinical experience. I understand LizzyM's "smelling patients" guideline, but just because you hand a patients a piece of paper and sometimes push a wheelchair a few feet doesn't mean it's clinical experience. Maybe it counts, but I wouldn't be so sure.

What did you do in the nursing home portion? Maybe go back to that? If it's a "most meaningful experience" to you, you get an extra 1300-ish characters to talk about your experience, so you can possibly lump the two together and talk about your responsibilities in each and how you've been involved since high school.

 

[LizzyM]

You could list them as a single "volunteer, clinical" and give the name of the facility, etc. Then in the description section list dates and "nursing home volunteer responsible for...." and then a separate line "office practice volunteer responsible for..."