Nephrology social worker vs medical social worker

Differences between nephrology social worker and medical social worker duties and responsibilities

Nephrology social worker example responsibilities.

• Direct patients and their families to appropriate community agencies and resources for financial assistance, counseling and rehabilitation.
• Work closely with financial coordinator to ensure patients have insurance coverage and access to medications.
• Provide individual and group counseling for patients struggling with ESRD diagnosis.
• Conduct psychosocial assessments, plans of care, and CMS regulate documentation.
• Assist & work together with medical team to facilitate interdisciplinary approach.
• Participate on interdisciplinary team for case management and monthly quality assurance meetings.
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Medical social worker example responsibilities.

• Understand manage care, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.
• Humanize the medical setting for elderly patients by using appropriate compassion in explaining complex information.
• Provide crisis intervention, supportive counseling and trauma/grief counseling for patients and their families experiencing acute or chronic traumatic events.
• Provide hands-on assessment and monitoring of suspect child abuse and neglect cases of children needing intensive rehabilitation and specialize care.
• Provide social casework to patients having difficulty in social functioning, primarily as it affects their health and emotional rehabilitation.
• Facilitate family counseling, crisis intervention, and assessments of specials population including geriatrics, homeless and substance abusing veterans.
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