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The Sackville Memorial Hospital Social Work Services provides a broad range of inpatient services to the client/family during the hospital stay which plays a vital role in maintaining wellness while in hospital, while transitioning back to the community and throughout the clinical treatment process. The social worker in the hospital setting assists individuals and families to resolve social, emotional and environmental issues related to their illness and which interfere with successful medical treatment and the quality of client/family life.
We use a client-centered approach to build on the strengths and resources of individuals, families and communities. Social workers believe in the intrinsic worth and dignity of every human being and they are committed to the values of acceptance, self-determination and respect of individuality. We value interdisciplinary teamwork, collaborative practice and community-based partnerships.
Social workers can provide a broad range of social work services including:
- Psycho-social assessments
- Counselling and/or therapy with individuals, couples, families and groups
- Treatment planning/coordinating service delivery (including complex discharge planning)
- Mobilizing hospital and community resources (i.e. referrals to outside agencies/community resources; assisting clients in accessing basic human need services)
- Consultation, advocacy, mediation
- Education
- Program development
- Community development (i.e. facilitate the formalizing of internal and external partnerships with key partners and organizations)
- Other
Referral indicators for social work include the following:
When:
- A patient/client/family is adjusting to the impact of a new or chronic diagnosis.
- A patient has experienced repeated hospitalization and/or lengthy hospitalization.
- A patient/client has limited family or social supports.
- A patient/family is faced with caregiver burnout/fatigue.
- There are difficult family dynamics.
- A patient/client/family is grieving (e.g. loss of a loved one, palliative care, poor prognosis, traumatic injury).
- A patient/client/family’s overall emotional well-being and mental health is affected which may impact on treatment or discharge (e.g. patient/client/family’s behaviour or demeanour might suggest anxiety, depression, anger, suicidal ideation, panic, sorrow, denial, being overwhelmed).
- Parents require support (e.g. arrival of new baby, troubled children and teens, child’s sickness).
- There are child or adult protection concerns.
- A patient/client is suspected of having an addiction (e.g. alcohol, drug, gambling).
- A patient/client/family has limited financial supports (e.g. condition requires a change in employment, limited income, unemployment).
- A patient/client is living in an unsafe physical environment (e.g. homeless, family violence situation).
- Other.
(Not an exclusive list, only a guideline)
Referrals may be made by patients/clients, family members, friends, a physician, a member of the interdisciplinary health care team and community agencies.
All social workers within South-East Regional Health Authority (SERHA)are registered members of the Canadian and New Brunswick Association of Social Workers and follow the code of ethics set by the Canadian Association of Social Workers.
SERHA employs approximately 28 social workers at The Moncton Hospital, Sackville Memorial Hospital, the Extra-Mural Program and Addiction Services.
Social Work Services provides services at Sackville Memorial Hospital four days a week from Monday to Thursday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm.
Our goal is to provide the highest standard of social work practice to individuals, families, groups and communities to improve the quality of life for the people we serve, in collaboration with internal and external partners.
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