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What Promotes Joy
Published in Eve Shapiro, Joy in Medicine?, 2020
I chose to become a social worker because of several personal experiences as well as guidance from mentors who knew me well. When I was in my early 20s, I enrolled in a nursing program after completing my bachelor’s degree in human services. I was unfortunately forced to leave the program in the first several weeks due to a traumatic car accident. I required several years of intensive medical care and rehabilitation. Following this life experience, I was guided to social work by a colleague who felt it would suit my personality and skills well. I enrolled in a social work graduate program and began working in hospitals in my second year, which led me to a lifelong career in medical social work.
Outcome Measures 1: Disability and Day to Day Practical Care
Published in Caroline Glendinning, A Single Door, 2015
A child's admission to hospital as an in-patient, in addition to causing parents some degree of anxiety and emotional stress, is likely to give rise to a number of practical problems as well. Transport for visiting has to be arranged. Whether or not a private family car is available, such transport will invariably incur additional financial costs. Both parents may lose time and earnings from work, and special arrangements will have to be made for the care of other children in the family. Help with many of these problems may normally fall within the relatively specialized remit of a hospital-based medical social worker. However, as described in Chapter 4, the resource workers found at the start of the project that only 6 per cent of the families they were to visit reported being in even occasional contact with a hospital social worker.
Career Outcomes Among Medical vs. Family Service Social Workers in Israel
Published in Gail K. Auslander, International Perspectives on Social Work in Health Care: Past, Present and Future, 2014
Given the limited opportunities for vertical advancement in medical social work settings, it would be worthwhile for their managers to focus on job enlargement (Arnold & Feldman, 1986). Thus, the role of the medical social worker might be redefined to include additional tasks such as evaluative studies of interventions. Such research would not only enhance their theoretical knowledge but improve their performance in the field (Ben-Sira, 1987). In addition, social workers may enhance their sense of organizational power by initiating activities aimed at educating physicians and nurses about the distinctive domains of social work intervention, e.g., patient-family relations, and activities aimed toward responding to social and interpersonal needs of clients. Such activities may take place in informal or self-help networks as well as via social and professional organizations.
How cynicism and exhaustion influence the turnover intention of medical social workers: moderation effect of social work educational background and organizational type
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2022
Huan Zhang, Qiong Xie, Jiachen Zou
With the rapid development of medical social work, social work organizations outside hospitals have emerged to provide medical social work services (Zhang et al., 2018). Compared with medical social workers in hospitals, medical social workers in social work organizations are more professional in social work and face more challenges in cooperating with medical teams. Therefore, medical social workers in different organizational types are similar to those with different social work educational backgrounds. We propose the following hypotheses: H4: Organizational type moderates the relationships between a medical social worker’s exhaustion, cynicism and turnover intention.
Nursing home social services: A systematic review of the literature from 2010 to 2020
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2021
Vivian J. Miller, Tyrone Hamler, Susanny J. Beltran, Jacquelyn Burns
One of the most notable systems of care that employs social workers is the healthcare system. Healthcare, or medical social work, is a long-standing social work specialization and, although the designated duties and tasks vary across settings (e.g., hospitals, nursing homes, primary care), the profession is unified in its efforts to ameliorate social injustices while serving and empowering others (National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 2017). In nursing homes, social workers (SWs) support the psychosocial needs of residents and their families, in an effort to bring to fruition the promise and goals of person-centered care (PCC) that are upheld in this setting. PCC is a concept that guides culture change efforts in nursing homes that aim to de-medicalize this care setting and emphasize a home-like environment where the whole person is supported (Poey et al., 2017). PCC became a priority in nursing homes, and in long-term care in general, following the 1986 report published by the Institute of Medicine (Institute of Medicine (IOM), 2001), which argued that nursing home care involved two key components, nursing and home, thus it should give attention to the home component as much as the nursing aspect of care (Koren, 2010). This report triggered a set of nursing home reforms incorporated into the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, known as the Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA). PCC has been since promulgated through regulatory changes such as updates to the NHRA and quality improvement requirements set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (Corazzini et al., 2015)
Addressing the social needs of individuals with food allergy and celiac disease during COVID-19: A new practice model for sustained social care
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2021
Lucy A. Bilaver, Rajeshree Das, Erin Martinez, Emily Brown, Ruchi S. Gupta, Marissa Love
Interdisciplinary partnerships between medical, social work, and social care providers are increasingly recognized as a necessity to address the SDOH, which contribute to the poor health of patients and communities. A recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine entitled “Integrating Social Care into the Delivery of Health Care: Moving Upstream to Improve the Nation’s Health” (hereafter the “Integrating Social Care” report) thoroughly reviewed the activities needed to integrate social care into clinical practice and what kinds of infrastructure will be required to facilitate such activities. The committee identified five activities including: awareness, adjustment, assistance, alignment, and advocacy (National Academies of Sciences, E. & Medicine, 2019). The focus of this paper is a practice model implemented during the pandemic that embodies these activities to address the social needs of low-income and/or food insecure patients with food allergy or celiac disease.