is this clinical hours?

[romanjoe]

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Hi everyone! there's a chance I'm going to be a reapplicant next cycle and the biggest change to my EC would be the following two activities:

1) Crisis Textline Counselor (200 hours)
2) Hospice Volunteer (80 hours)

I was wondering if my crisis textline hours would count as clinical, especially during the pandemic? I'm dealing with individuals at-risk for mental health disorders and suicide.

I live in Bay Area, CA where the clinical volunteering opportunities were hit extremely hard throughout this past year. Only in early March, of this year, was I finally able to contribute as a hospice volunteer face-to-face with patients. Before March, I was consistently told that no hospitals in the area were even considering on-boarding new volunteers.

I'd love your input! Thank you so much. Feeling really insecure about not having done more face-to-face clinical hours. I really would have if I could.

 

[Proudfather94]

Hi everyone! there's a chance I'm going to be a reapplicant next cycle and the biggest change to my EC would be the following two activities:

1) Crisis Textline Counselor (200 hours)
2) Hospice Volunteer (80 hours)

I was wondering if my crisis textline hours would count as clinical, especially during the pandemic? I'm dealing with individuals at-risk for mental health disorders and suicide.

I live in Bay Area, CA where the clinical volunteering opportunities were hit extremely hard throughout this past year. Only in early March, of this year, was I finally able to contribute as a hospice volunteer face-to-face with patients. Before March, I was consistently told that no hospitals in the area were even considering on-boarding new volunteers.

I'd love your input! Thank you so much. Feeling really insecure about not having done more face-to-face clinical hours. I really would have if I could.

I'm not an expert on this but I would probably say no unfortunately. There's a nurses aide shortage pretty much everywhere you should look into it. That job has you doing some of the doctors orders which mixed in with shadowing would give you a great idea of what a doctors job is

 

[Doctor-S]

Hi everyone! there's a chance I'm going to be a reapplicant next cycle and the biggest change to my EC would be the following two activities:

1) Crisis Textline Counselor (200 hours)
2) Hospice Volunteer (80 hours)

I was wondering if my crisis textline hours would count as clinical, especially during the pandemic? I'm dealing with individuals at-risk for mental health disorders and suicide.

I live in Bay Area, CA where the clinical volunteering opportunities were hit extremely hard throughout this past year. Only in early March, of this year, was I finally able to contribute as a hospice volunteer face-to-face with patients. Before March, I was consistently told that no hospitals in the area were even considering on-boarding new volunteers.

I'd love your input! Thank you so much. Feeling really insecure about not having done more face-to-face clinical hours. I really would have if I could.

Hospice volunteering is a good clinical volunteering experience - good job ... stay with it.

The crisis textline counselor would be non-clinical volunteering.

Although you are providing textline support to distressed individuals, it is likely you are doing this in the comfort and quiet of your own home. It is not the same experience (or the same challenge) as a direct face-to-face contact with a distressed patient, in a health care environment (e.g., in a hospital or clinic).

Just saying.

 

[romanjoe]

Hospice volunteering is a good clinical volunteering experience - good job ... stay with it.

The crisis textline counselor would be non-clinical volunteering.

Although you are providing textline support to distressed individuals, it is likely you are doing this in the comfort and quiet of your own home. It is not the same experience (or the same challenge) as a direct face-to-face contact with a distressed patient, in a health care environment (e.g., in a hospital or clinic).

Just saying.

Thank you so much for your response!! This makes a lot of sense.

If you don't mind me asking a follow-up: how can I avoid the perception that I started my hospice volunteering late into my gap year ( march of the same year where I will be applying in June) ? how can I convey to the admcom that for so many months I was trying to get involved in face-to-face clinical volunteering to no effect because of Covid?

 

[Moko]

how can I convey to the adcom that for so many months I was trying to get involved in face-to-face clinical volunteering to no effect because of Covid?

You do not need to convey this. We are well aware that there were no in-person clinical volunteering opportunities for the past year. We already saw a fair amount of contactless volunteering during this current cycle, and expect to see more of these activities with the upcoming cycle. Just my thoughts.