Social Worker On The Floor

2008). Another system focused on patient scheduling in a rehabilitation setting (Ozbolt, J.G., Saba, V.K. 2008). Nurses at a California hosptial assisted in developing the first comprehensive hospital information system and helped integrat the system for nursing care planning, documentation, and feedback (Ozbolt, J.G., Saba, V.K. 2008). They developed the standard care plans that are used throughout the world today (Ozbolt, J.G., Saba, V.K. 2008). Another big achievement of this decade was the introduction of the first commercial electronic medical record (Thede, L. 2012). This new system was patient-oriented and was implemented throughout the hospital (Thede, L. 2012).

1. As the clinic nurse, what routine information would you want to obtain from S.R.?

The social worker in this story had many different responsibilities and roles while working in the ER at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. His responsibilities include having to put the puzzle pieces together of who the victim is as they are being treated. This is often a taunting task because the staff is in a rush. The Social worker has to find clues like driver listens or anything else that will allow them to better understand who they are working with. Her responsibilities don't stop there. He was also responsible for working with the victims family to ensure that they were informed and comfortable.

Work in a way that is clearly set out in the job description. Work in accordance with the policies and procedures of the care organisation, for example, the health and safety policies and procedures. The agreed ways of working are set of codes by the employer for the social care worker to conduct

A typical day consists of arriving at work at nine in the morning at the latest. First she will go to her computer, and look at the census of all the patients. She figures out if there are any new patients since she left the previous day and go over who came in the night before. Then she has to know whose social assessment needs to be done because they need to be done seventy-two hours within the patient’s admission. She usually will keep notes on her desk on what needs to be done. Most days, she calls homeless shelters because some patients have to go there after they are discharged. If she is not calling a homeless shelter, there is always another place or family to call for patients. She attends a team meeting every day at eleven in the morning to talk about their patients and the best way of handling their situations. She meets with her patients and will do their social assessment. They talk about how they feel about going home or going to a homeless shelter. Some days she does family sessions in addition. Everyone being discharged needs a psychologist and a therapist, so she must make sure that happens as well. She does not have a lot of control about what job she will be doing during the day. Overall,

Inspect and manage medical records to insure that the correct information is being used for the right patient.

Monitoring everything, payroll, billing, human resource, scheduling, follow-up with nurses and employees, doctor requests, communicate with the doctor about patients and pre-authorization documents needed for the plan of care, HMO, training, physical therapy for patients.

1.2 Explain how health and safety policies and procedures protect those in social care settings.

The various policies and procedures are in place to protect vulnerable people, staff and visitors to maintain their health and eliminate risk and dangers. The policies and procedure also allow all member of staff follow similar Buidelines and ensure that they all know what to do in an event of an emergency The social care worker- the social worker is responsible for the care of their own health as well as other people health and safety. To do this, the social worker has to cooperate with their setting health and safety policy, record keeping and reporting anything that in health and safety issues that concerns them, for example faulty equipment and suspicious bruising on a patient.

At my practicum site we are using Athena health as an (EMR) Electronic medical record. Every facility has their own ways of doing things, but the goal for everyone is patient satisfaction and community health promotion. At the practicum site where I’m currently precepting, first of all, when the patient comes in, a medical assistant would perform an intake on them by doing the vital signs; height and weight check and puts them in the EMR. Moreover, they also obtain the information from the patient about their chief complaint, refills required or any other issues that they need to discuss with the provider. So when the provider comes in, they know what to expect and why patient came in today. Then, the provider obtains the history of present illness and performs a necessary assessment, and

-Interview patients for medical histories and chief complaints, measure vital signs, and review medication lists

From a business aspect, she orders and maintains supplies; coordinates the ICD 10 coding; manages patients’ accounts as patients’ risk level changes, cardiac/pulmonary rehab phase changes, or if patients have a personal or medical leave of absence. She schedules patients sessions to

Everything will be scanned onto the computer such as the patient’s personal information, medical history, medicines that were prescribed to the patient or any medications that the patient is currently taken, and any diagnosis the doctor has concluded to including any referrals to any specialists. The system itself does cost money to attain plus to install the software onto all of the computers will also cost money since an IT technician would have to be called in order to get everything running correctly. Also training staff on how to use the system will take time.

What she likes most about her job is that there aren’t any typical days. Primarily she is responsible for obtaining data such as: patient demographics, laboratory work, radiology, and appointment utilization, from multiple data banks within the military hospital. Shadow her for a week and you will see her in a variety of roles. Some days she may present a brief to the executive team; another day you may find her mentoring a nurse on how to build a disease management database ("Nursing Informatics as a Career," 2011). On another day she might be evaluating a consumer-based web education program. The following is one example of what at typical project for her may look like, Dr. A may request information on clinical outcomes on diabetes care for the patients on their panel. After extracting the data, she then transforms it in to information that is useful for example, one list may show all diabetic patients that are missing annual eye exams. Another example may include helping a provider examine new cost-effective technologies like hand held devices.

Dr. Patricia Benner is responsible for the idea that a nurse begins her career as a novice, having a sound educational base, and eventually develops into an expert nurse after a multitude of experiences in the field (“From Novice to Expert”, 2013). This paper will explore Benner’s five stages to becoming clinically competent. This paper will also discuss the use of information technology in the clinical setting, including potential benefits of electronic health records to nurses and the impact of health information technology on consumer health.