A Guide For Nursing Home Social Workers

by Elise Beaulieu PhD, MSW, LICSW

Overview

This book clearly distinguishes the function of beginning nursing home social workers and provides information and resources essential for them. Topics covered include: assessment; the intake and discharge processes; interventions; resource allocation; medication; diagnosis and treatment of depression; dementias; and legal issues, ethics, and confidentiality agreements. Making the volume still more practical is a glossary of commonly used terms and abbreviations as well as a section of standardized forms and charts.

"A Guide for Nursing Home Social Workers is an encyclopedia of nursing home practice issues with which social workers must become familiar. The book is essential reading for beginning and experienced social workers alike. It is also an outstanding text for courses that include content on practice in long term care."

--Patricia Brownell, PhD, CSW, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, New York

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826115317
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	12/27/2001
Series:	Springer Series on Social Work
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Elise M. Beaulieu, PhD, MSW, LICSW, received a PhD in social work from Simmons College with a focus on older adults and discharge planning. Her teaching spans both two- and four-year college institutions within the Boston area.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Social Work: Basic Orientation, Social Work in Nursing Facilities

2. The Nursing Facility

3. Surveys

4. Diagnoses and Treatment

5. Legal Representatives for Residents

6. Ethics

7. Community Liaisons

8. Problems and Solutions

Sample Forms

Index

Summary

Afterword