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Hi Everybody.
I apologize if this has been asked before, I couldn't find much when searching the forums for this topic. I'm very interested and shall be starting to volunteer at my local VA hospital and I was wondering if this would be classified as non-clinical or clinical? I know that the consensus is, if you can smell the patient then its clinical, but I'm just curious what exactly would constitute clinical vs non-clinical in this situation? Would it be fair/legitimate to classify it as non-clinical volunteering as I will be starting a phlebotomist position soon as well and would be able to get my clinical exposure through that avenue. I love the idea of volunteering at the VA as many of my family members have been in the military and I believe that they are under-served when they may deserve our help the most. Would it be incorrect to then classify this volunteering as non-clinical or should I find other methods of giving back that would be less ambiguous as to its classification?
I apologize if this has been asked before, I couldn't find much when searching the forums for this topic. I'm very interested and shall be starting to volunteer at my local VA hospital and I was wondering if this would be classified as non-clinical or clinical? I know that the consensus is, if you can smell the patient then its clinical, but I'm just curious what exactly would constitute clinical vs non-clinical in this situation? Would it be fair/legitimate to classify it as non-clinical volunteering as I will be starting a phlebotomist position soon as well and would be able to get my clinical exposure through that avenue. I love the idea of volunteering at the VA as many of my family members have been in the military and I believe that they are under-served when they may deserve our help the most. Would it be incorrect to then classify this volunteering as non-clinical or should I find other methods of giving back that would be less ambiguous as to its classification?