Is working as head of first aid at a summer camp considered clinical?

[drewmighty]

So I did this last year and will be doing it this year as well. I worked and will be again working at a summer day camp and have a first aid station set up where kids go if they have injuries or other health issues.
Duties:
-Treating injuries of kids (mainly dealing with scrapes and bruises, but last year had to deal with some broken noses and a broken toe)
-Dealing with medications (some kids need medications and I need to log them and make sure the take them as prescribed by doctors)
-Coming up with a health outline/policy for staff (with help of head of camp) as well as giving a speech on health and safety at training for staff
-Talking to parents about issues or injuries if they occur
-making sure people have all their health forms filled out
-being up to date on all health regulations regarding ACA (American camp society)
-Cleaning up and dealing with any bodily fluids (vomit, blood, feces. We have kids from ages 5-13 so sometimes have to do the last one)


My main concern was that this is not in a hospital setting or facility specializing in treating injured patients so I am not sure if this counts as direct clinical care.

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[LizzyM]

They aren't patients so this does not meet my strict definition. It isn't anymore clinical than babysitting would be clinical because you clean up after kids, put a bandage on a booboo and give them a medication as prescribed and in accordance with instructions given to you by the kid's parents.

 

[drewmighty]

They aren't patients so this does not meet my strict definition. It isn't anymore clinical than babysitting would be clinical because you clean up after kids, put a bandage on a booboo and give them a medication as prescribed and in accordance with instructions given to you by the kid's parents.

Thank you for the quick and honest response, I will mark it as non-clinical paid work on my application

 

[Planes2Doc]

Not really. But definitely talk in depth about the summer day camp experience otherwise. It's good and different from the monotonous entry-level clinical jobs.

 

[drewmighty]

Not really. But definitely talk in depth about the summer day camp experience otherwise. It's good and different from the monotonous entry-level clinical jobs.

I will! I am not too worried though as I worked for 3 years in a psych facility and have tons of clinical hours from that. I am hoping that my unique and experiences will help my app.