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Pete Health And Social Care Process

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Maureen is a social worker in a hospital; her main job is to ensure that patients in vulnerable situations are safe to go home. This short film follows Maureen for a day and provides an insight into how she passionate about her work as a social worker and making a great effort to making a difference in a client’s life (A Day In The Life: Maureen, 2009). Maureen has some responsibilities to help the clients such as; to visit the discharge unit and assess clients. To arranging appropriate social services for the clients, for example, home care, residential care, to ensuring safety and securities and nursing care. To promote the client’s independence and to make sure that clients are living in the safe and secure environment at the home (A Day In The Life: Maureen, 2009). As a part of the complexity of her working is every individual client having different needs so, according to their needs she has to address it. Then, she has to do the planning and discuss that with the client’s relatives or family members to gain their trust. This whole process requires analytical, critical thinking and safe and sound judgments skills. I think this whole process is very complicated and challenging at the work setting (A Day In The Life: Maureen, 2009). …show more content…

She visits the discharge unit to assess clients and see how much they can able to do by themselves. To find out who are require the social service to support themselves. Taking consideration of any risk when a client goes back to home. In the last, very important is to know how to contact them (A Day In The Life: Maureen, 2009). Here, I would like to mention that as “Elders and dependent adults are among the most vulnerable and unsafe in the home environment.” (Adult Protective Services & Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse 2012) So, in the assessment process, this point should be keeping in the

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