 What's up you guys? So it is like interview season. I've been doing quite a few mock interviews and something that I typically ask you guys on the mock interview is questions about what your healthcare experience is and how it's kind of like prepared you for PA school. That's usually one of my questions that I ask so much so that I've been getting questions about what is direct patient care experience or what is healthcare experience and so I just kind of wanted to clarify that because I've been getting like is this going to be considered patient care experience or is that going to be considered patient care experience? So this video is going to be about what is considered patient care experience. Now obviously it's not going to be an extensive exhaustive list. You can go to your school that you're trying to apply to their website to try and figure this out but it's going to be a list that will kind of give you broad strokes and kind of give you more so the description of what direct patient care experience is. So let's get into the video right now. What's up you guys? It's Adana. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you guys so much for joining me today. So I wanted to talk about direct patient care experience. Now as I stated obviously you can go to the school that you're trying to apply to and look at what they consider direct patient care experience okay. There's a difference between PCE which is your direct patient care experience and healthcare experience and healthcare experiences anything that you may do in the healthcare setting in the healthcare world okay. And there are volunteer options for healthcare experience and paid options for healthcare experience. You know I don't know they're not really called candy strippers anymore but like the candy strippers that just kind of help with like transporting patients to you know in a wheelchair to their car or something along those lines or help with like paperwork that's healthcare experience but it's not direct patient care experience. So what is direct patient care experience? Because this is what the majority of PA schools are really harping on. This is where you'll need to have like your 2000 plus hours. You're you're going to be taking care of patients when you become a PA and then when you're a PA student and so they want to know that you have like a little bit of like world experience I guess you could say. So what is direct patient care experience? So direct patient care experience is any experience where you are directly involved in the patients care right it's in the name it's not it's not hard you guys right. So are you are you transferring patients from their bed to you know the bed pan or the bathtub are you bathing them are you taking care of like their ADLs are you helping them in assistance with their ADLs like movement you know in terms of like being an occupational therapist are you prescribing medications or coming up with treatment plans or being a part of the treatment team these are all examples of what a job that has direct patient experience may entail and so what that means that I just kind of wanted to give you guys you know three to five different options on what you can do that are certificates not necessarily you going to get like a two-year or four-year degree a certificate that will allow you the opportunity to get direct patient care experience like get in there quickly to start building up to those 2000 plus hours so that you can prepare yourself for your PA school application okay. So number one is being a CNA you know I'm all for that I was a CNA I went to go to CNA school it was not that long and I was in there in and out very quickly got to be able to like just kind of transition into that role and got my experience which was great and so being a CNA is something along the lines of being a CNA you can be an MA or a nurse assistant as well again certificates but you are directly involved in the patient's care like taking vitals drawing labs all of that stuff you can also be a phlebotomist like solely vampire business just drawing blood for the lab work that you know was ordered so that is also an option for you along with that you can be an EMT or an EMS going and again getting a certificate in those different specialties and careers will allow you the opportunity to gain direct patient care experience another thing is becoming a firefighter so I know like not all like firefighters or EMTs and so you may just want to be you know on the rig and be a firefighter but that will afford you the opportunity to have direct patient care experience as well the last two that I think most people kind of go or gravitate towards besides being a CNA is being an emergency department tech or being a scribe there you are in the mix you are drawing blood you're changing you know bedpans and beds you're wiping patients down you're doing a lot my RED texts do a plethora of things they're transporting patients to and from imaging studies and so that is something that you can get a lot of experience in. Scribes are considered by different programs a career or a job where you can have direct patient care experience simply because you are kind of involved right there with the provider while they're making their decisions while they're seeing patients while they're coming up with a treatment plan you're documenting all of this now obviously you're not taking part in terms of like laying hands on the patient however there are lots of schools that do consider being a scribe direct patient care experience so you'll just have to be very very mindful of the fact that not every school considers it direct patient care experience so make sure you like make those nuances and and make those connections with either your admissions counselor for the program or do your research and look at the various different examples that they may have on their website on what they consider direct patient care experience okay so I think that was like maybe six or seven even eight options for you but all things that you guys can look into that are again just certificates not long schooling for you all that will allow you to get in there quickly and be able to start working and building up towards your patient care hours because it's becoming so much more and more competitive and the number of hours that these schools are requiring are becoming more and more elevated I remember when you know like a thousand to fifteen hundred was like the benchmark and now we're looking at two thousand twenty five hundred and some schools that say their average student comes in with about five thousand hours so just keeping that in mind these are some options that will help you like start off early while also you know maintaining whatever schooling you're already going to by getting a certificate okay so hopefully this is helpful you know gotta come back and come back full circle for you guys so that you guys can again get the information on what exactly is considered direct patient care experience in terms of the job like where can you get that so this is my list for you I'll put it in the description box as well or pin it to a comment just so that you can see that quickly and you know hopefully this answers some of your questions all right if you have any other questions for me leave in the comment section below don't forget to like this video and subscribe to my channel follow me on instagram and on pa and on instagram to get that to university thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time