Title

Discharge Planning And Social Work Practice

Keywords

Discharge planners; Discharge planning; Discharge planning roles and tasks; Generalist practice; Health care social work; Medical social work; Tasks for discharge planning

Abstract

Current health care practice discharge planning has emerged as a major professional function in hospital settings. To examine the tasks involved in discharge planning and how frequently they are being performed, 124 Alabama hospitals were contacted with a 72% response rate. Of the 178 surveys returned by discharge planners the core tasks were identified and ranked in terms of performance frequency. The results revealed that the tasks performed typically resembled that of generalist social workers. When specialization occurred, it was related to the populations served and not the specialized tasks or methods utilized. From this data recommendations are made for linking advanced generalist social work practice to discharge planning activities. © 2001 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Publication Title

Social Work in Health Care

Volume

32

Issue

3

Number of Pages

1-19

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1300/J010v32n03_01

Socpus ID

0035182848 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0035182848

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