Is Hospice Volunteering Considered Clinical Experience?

[deleted915763]

I volunteer to help take care of and provide comfort and companionship to people on hospice, most times, the patient is in some sort of care facility, sometimes they are at home. I am assigned the family until the patient passes away. Is it okay to list this as clinical experience?

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[LonelyBoi]

Yes of course.

 

[jarednogeek]

absolutely, did hospice and put as clinical

 

[Goro]

I volunteer to help take care of and provide comfort and companionship to people on hospice, most times, the patient is in some sort of care facility, sometimes they are at home. I am assigned the family until the patient passes away. Is it okay to list this as clinical experience?

Yes, and a very admirable one at that.

 

[deleted915763]

It has been life-changing, to say the least.

 

[619959]

I pretty much did what you mentioned you would be doing and learned ( or have been exposed to) a different side of medicine. This side of medicine does not aim to prevent diseases or cure something, it just aims to provide comfort and care- putting patients' wishes first.

 

[MyOdyssey]

I pretty much did what you mentioned you would be doing and learned ( or have been exposed to) a different side of medicine. This side of medicine does not aim to prevent diseases or cure something, it just aims to provide comfort and care- putting patients' wishes first.

Palliative care? Seems to be growing more popular in cancer treatment centers.

 

[619959]

Palliative care? Seems to be growing more popular in cancer treatment centers.

Not the same concept, although similar aim/goal.
This article is good: What is palliative care?: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia

 

[Catalystik]

I volunteer to help take care of and provide comfort and companionship to people on hospice, most times, the patient is in some sort of care facility, sometimes they are at home. I am assigned the family until the patient passes away. Is it okay to list this as clinical experience?

Providing comfort and companionship to a hospice patient is clinical. Some hospice programs give volunteers tasks like meal prep, laundry, cleaning, and errands, which would be nonclinical.