What Questions to Ask at Nursing Home Interview?

Question by Whoa!: What questions to ask at nursing home interview?
Hello,

I have an interview tomorrow at a nursing home for volunteer work. I’m in college and my interest is in occupational therapy. I will be working with the rehab department. I could tell she expects me to ask a lot of questions in regards to my volunteer work, however I don’t have any except what they require me to wear. Does anyone have any questions I should ask. I would hate to be put on the spot and not have anything to ask…

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Answer by jannsody
Perhaps you can ask about the rehab department (if the person interviewing doesn’t cover everything :) You may want to ask about how many OTs/OTAs (occupational therapy assistant) and PTs/PTAs (physical therapy assistant) that are with the department. There may be a speech-language pathologist/s (slp), too, or perhaps in a different department. How about asking re: the types of tasks of a volunteer in the rehab department. A volunteer at a nursing home usually does non-direct patient care tasks. (Even transporting patients to the rehab department is usually done by a staff member, such as a rehab aide, due to regulations.)

Just an fyi before taking pre-req classes for OT, please job shadow/observe those in the various departments that administer OT, including a *physical rehabilitation hospital* that treat patients with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), spinal cord injury/paralysis, stroke (“brain attack“) which is a type of brain injury, other neurological disorders, hip/shoulder/knee replacement, amputated limbs or such – *pediatric hospital* – *nursing home/long-term care facility* (which you may indeed get to observe quite a bit, though perhaps you can job shadow at another nursing home setting, too ;)

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