A Guide for Nursing Home Social Workers
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-9348-3 (ISBN)
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This book thoroughly explains the role and function of nursing home social workers and provides information and resources essential for them. Covered topics include chart and documentation; social work consultation; working in a multidisciplinary team; assessment and intervention; medication; understanding dementia, depression, and other mental health issues; ombudsman program; abuse, neglect, and mistreatment; the intake and discharge processes; resource allocation, legal issues, ethical issues, facility policies; room changes and the MDS 3.0. The book also contains a set of helpful forms including assessments, screenings, transfer/discharge notes, team meeting records, social service evaluation forms, and state health care proxy form examples.
Key Features:
Comprises the most comprehensive guide to nursing home social work available
Includes new chapters on culture and diversity; spirituality; disaster planning; pain in older adults; families, and health/financial legal representatives
Contains updated materials on guidelines and studies related to nursing home social work
Provides numerous useful resources such as running groups in the facility and staff training
Elise Beaulieu, PhD (c), MSW, ACSW, LICSW, is a nursing home social work consultant. Previously she was curriculum manager for the Institute for Geriatric Social Work, School of Social Work, Boston University, where she facilitated and developed interactive online courses for social service providers. She has also worked as a Director of Social Work at several nursing Massachusetts nursing facilities where she provided direct clinical social work to residents; supervised social workers and students, developed QA programs, and incorporated all state standards for nursing home social work. She has also held faculty positions at Quincy College, North Shore Community College, and she has been a visiting lecturer at Simmons College, Dean College, and Bridgewater University, Ms. Beaulieu is the Chair of NASW's Massachusetts Chapter, the Nursing Home Social Work Special Interest's Group (SIG). She oversees an annual Nursing Home Social Work conference and runs a number of related workshops on aging topics throughout the United States.
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 456 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-9348-X / 082619348X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-9348-3 / 9780826193483 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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