What exactly is a patient facing role?

[wormboge]

For example if there is an unconscious patient you are working with, is that a patient facing role?

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[21Rush12]

This is like the ICU version of “if a tree falls in the forest”

 

[wormboge]

This is like the ICU version of “if a tree falls in the forest”

Well, if a sound is by definition something that must be heard, then there's no sound.

 

[LizzyM]

Getting away from semantics, are you close enough to smell patients? If so, it meets my definition of clinical. That could be synonymous with "patient facing". Are you face-to-face with patients?
I would also take into account that when working with comatose patients, you have the experience of dealing with the family members of these patients. The same goes for NICU patinets who are too young to talk. This can be another formative experience (dealing with greiving or troubled family members.)