Medical Social Worker – MSW
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Medical Social Worker (MSW)
A Medical Social Worker (MSW) provides social work services to patients on an intermittent basis in their place of residence. This is performed in accordance with physician orders and plan of care under the direction and supervision of the Director of Clinical Services/Nursing Supervisor. Services are furnished by a qualified social worker or by a qualified social work assistant under the supervision of a qualified social worker.
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Medical Social Worker Services
Evaluation for Safety Needs
Counseling for Long-Term Planning Assess and refer to:
Government Assistance Programs
Meals on Wheels
Transportation Services
Life Line
Board & Care Facility or Skilled Nursing Facility
In-Home Support Care Services (Attendance Domestic Care)
What is Medical Social Worker?
Medical social work is a sub-discipline of social work, also known as hospital social work. Medical social workers typically work in a hospital, outpatient clinic, community health agency, skilled nursing facility, long-term care facility or hospice. They work with patients and their families in need of psychosocial help. Medical social workers assess the psychosocial functioning of patients and families and intervene as necessary. Social workers address questions such as: Who should we intervene and when should they intervene?[1] Interventions may include connecting patients and families to necessary resources and support in the community such as preventive care; providing psychotherapy, supportive counseling, or grief counseling; or helping a patient to expand and strengthen their network of social supports. Role of a medical social worker is to “restore balance in an individual’s personal, family and social life, in order to help that person maintain or recover his/her health and strengthen his/her ability to adapt and reintegrate into society” (Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux du Québec, OPTSQ, 1999). Professionals in this field typically work with other disciplines such as medicine, nursing, physical, occupational, speech and recreational therapy.
Medical workers who work in the pediatric Aerodigestive Program are imperative to assist the families to control the specific necessities of their child, while striving to escalate coping and the well being of their patients.[2]