Literature Review : Medical Social Workers

Social workers react to reports and take those in danger of neglect to a safer environment. “Being a social worker isn’t the easiest job to do, to succeed you have to be mentally strong and actually look forward to going to work” (Martinez). As a social worker you view the world differently from the cases you handle in an everyday bases

Case Managers have a challenging job, often dealing with patients, community agencies and facilitating their hospital discharge to the next level of care. They collaborate and communicate with the entire healthcare team and mostly with the patient during the hospitalization process. They act as support for all stakeholders to achieve positive patient outcomes. In this paper, I will be interviewing Ian Mopas, who is a Patient Care Coordinator at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City about his education, work training, goals, and objectives as a Care Coordinator, and his responsibilities in his organization.

Social workers in the healthcare field can be very beneficial to an interdisciplinary team. Throughout the semester we have looked at how social workers bring their professional and distinct skill set and beliefs to these teams. There are many stereotypes and biases surrounding social workers and other professionals on interdisciplinary teams. Social workers also have different views than other healthcare professionals and use their skills in communication to help the clients they serve, along with various other skills that are unique to social workers differing from other professional in the healthcare field. A social worker’s skill set can be extremely useful when working with specific populations at risk. The relationship between health

This meek beginning social work had progressed into a professional service with treatment obligations in all patient care areas, helping patients ←and→ families to attain their highest level of adjustment/coping in society, endorsing vocational ←and→ psychosocial rehabilitation. Social workers developed implemented treatment approaches which addressed individual social difficulties work with acute/chronic medical conditions, dying patients, bereaved families. VA social workers were liable for ensuring continuity of care through the admission, evaluation, treatment, follow-up processes this consisted of coordinating discharge planning providing case management services based on the patients clinical community health social services

To effectively manage the discharge of individuals and transfer of care between settings, the social service team at UPMC-MDU start early to anticipate problems and discuss barriers and reoccurring traumatic events, but most importantly, patients and multidisciplinary team, via daily meeting, are involved at all stages of the discharge planning and medical treatment process. Considering this process and significance to employ a person-in-environment approach, I have become more aware of the need for skillful care coordination to achieve the most successful clinical and

With a master 's level education in social work, I see myself envisioning clients’ health and well-being. As a student, I will study and practice techniques, beyond a generalist perspective, that will allow me to give clients hope and the ability to see something greater than what they are facing. Upon completion of a Master of Social Work direct practice degree and certificates in gerontology and mental health programs, I intend to become a licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, I will competently incorporate specialized skills in different professional settings while developing my knowledge of a wide range of social issues and professional standards. With commitment, I wish to develop skills that will enable me to create or find hidden resources and services for my future clients, create platforms through counselling for victims of trauma.

Social services within the outpatient and inpatient programs are facilitated by the social workers. The social workers host group therapy sessions, complete treatment plan, facilitates the aftercare planning meetings between the patient and their family members or friend, locate housing centers for homeless patients as well as those that are in unsafe living conditions, determine patient eligibility for program services, conduct biopsychosocial assessments, conduct CDC with patients, evaluate patients support systems, physical and emotional functioning of the patient’s, financial stability, safety, suicidal/homicidal ideation, implement treatment and discharge plans that coincide with the patient’s medical treatment, and offer referrals to residential housing and community resources.

Health and social care professions have in common the concept of a 'duty of care' toward their users. This means that the wellbeing of the service user should be central to their work. All treatment given must have a therapeutic benefit to the user or must be essential for saving life.

A social worker in a long-term care facility helps the person who is entering a facility to make the transition from a previous living environment to life in an institutional setting while meeting the social/emotional comfort needs of that resident. Once the resident is established, the social worker assures the resident's continuing needs are met and that the person is given the opportunity to participate in planning for continued care in the facility, transfer, or discharge back into the community. Although the resident is the main focus, it should be mentioned that much of the social worker’s time may be spent working with the

“Diversity makes for a rich tapestry. We must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value, no matter their color; equal in importance no matter their texture,” by Maya Angelou. I met my interviewee, Bill Hemphill through a mutual relative in my family who was generous enough to provide his contact information. Although he was he was a busy man, he agreed to let me interview him at his office. At first, I thought he was very strict and sympathetic , as a social worker should .To become a qualified Medical Social Worker you must be hard working, educated and dedicated. Upon meeting him he seem very courteous to those around him; he came up to me and shook my hand and praised me from becoming a “fellow” social worker. My impressions of him were that he was a delightful man who would give the world to his patients. We walked to his office and he shut the door behind to give us privacy. He bluntly said “ask any question you like about me and my career.”

In every setting social workers work in, they must use appropriate theories, treatment models, and research literature when working with a patient or patient systems. One social work setting I will be discussing is the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center that I am interning this year. To address the needs of any patient at the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, social workers must complete a Psychosocial, Brief Interview for Mental Status (BIMS) and The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) to find out what each patient needs. After they have completed those assessment, social workers need to work in an interdisciplinary team to conduct care plan meetings to address all their patient's presenting problem. The purpose

REPORTER: The reporter/ Medical Social Worker (Laura) called with concerns for the victim, Beulah. Beulah suffers from Major Depressive Disorder, Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis, and Disc Generation. She has a history of falling, and she needs assistance with her ADL’s. On Monday (03/14/2016), the victim told her nurse (Madeline) that her Penny (granddaughter/caretaker) pushed her down. It is unknown if she has visible marks or bruises. Today (03/17/2016), the victim said that Penny (granddaughter) didn’t push her down; the victim said she bumped into her granddaughter’s butt and fell down. The reporter was told to report the incident; the reporter’s supervisor believes that the victim is afraid of her granddaughter. The reporter said Penny (granddaughter)

Clinical social workers should be at the forefront of this issue, since they will be relied on heavily to provided information to fellow social worker in the felid that will be responsible for, engagement, assessing and implementing t interventions for this population.

There are many responsibilities in being a social worker in a hospital including “Identifying or diagnosing the psychological, emotional or social barriers that interfere with treatment, positive outcomes, or discharge-planning” (Gregorian, 2005, p. 4). The social worker we interviewed was part of the surgeon’s specialty team and commented that it can be a very stressful environment. If I were to be a social worker in this organisation, I would most likely share the same frustrations as many social workers in hospitals settings. The social workers in Austin hospital take a biomedical approach it is difficult to do holistic approaches. This kind of the opposite of what we

According to IC & RC, Case Management is defined as, “activities intended to bring services, agencies, resources, or people together within a planned framework of action toward the achievement of established goals. It may involve liaison activities and collateral contacts” (Herdman, John W., 6th Ed.). Case management is a concerted effort of various professionals in the human social services network that assess’, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates options required to meet the client’s health and human service needs. It is characterized by advocacy, communication, resource management and promotes quality cost-effective intervention outcomes. The Case Management Process centers on the client and the client’s support system. It is holistic in its approach to the management of the client’s individual and specific situation and that of the client’s support system. It is adaptive both to the case manager’s practice setting and to the healthcare setting in which the client receives services. Case management is not a profession unto itself however; it is a cross-disciplinary and interdependent specialty practice within the health and human services profession. Everyone directly or indirectly involved in healthcare benefits when healthcare professionals and