Practical Exploration of Effective Integration of Medical Social Workers into Medical Team in a Children' s Hospital / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Medical social work is an important component in the modern health care system. As an important medium and bridge between medical staffs and patients, medical social worker get involved in the field of communi-cation between doctors and patients with professional methods and path of social work, so as to improve doctor-pa-tient relationship and promote the harmony and stability of doctors and patients. In clinical practice, medical social workers actually encountered various dilemmas, such as the difficulties of medical teams' integration, lack of medi-cal expertise, the shortage of personnel allocation. Combined with the actual situation of social work development, this paper explored and gradually formed a new auxiliary mode for medical social workers in children' s special hos-pitals-medical social workers assistant. After some medical staffs are trained in social work knowledge, case refer-ral, intern band education, advocacy of social work concept and other work are conducted in the ward. And the practical experience and effectiveness are discussed and summarized and the future development is made a pros-pect.