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M Nacman

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PubMed1980

Social worker can eliminate potential risks.

If hospitals are to avoid suits, a balance must be achieved between providing support and helping people to cope with crises. The trained social worker can fill this role.

Anxiety↗
PubMed1980

Reflections of a social work administrator on the opportunities of crisis.

The administration approach described focuses on what staff can do rather than what they cannot do. It is the primary task of administration to bring out whatever strength a social worker possesses and to use each staff member's strength to help other social workers to improve their performance and to grow. The text of administrative achievement is not conformance but performance. The focus of administration must be on opportunities. The organization must be inculcated from the top with the habit of achievement. Social work management must set high standards of performance for itself that are related to the accomplishment of organizational objectives and not the needs of administrators. The administrative track record will include mistakes and failures. The better social work manager will make more mistakes because more new things will be tried. It is an administrative imperative to plan for crises, to make the unanticipated anticipated. The social work director, as architect, using a systems approach, can prepare for crisis and develop long-range plans for the social work program. Dr. Bennett states it well: As scientists and as professional people we would all do well to examine our roles, our motives, our faults, our policies, our prides and our prejudices in the broad context of our evolving society. If we look searchingly, we may finally arrive at a new viewpoint which will enable us to be pragmatic without sacrificing ideals, and hopefully, more humble without sacrificing pride (Bennett, 1978).

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1975

A systems approach to the provision of social work services in health settings: part 1.

This paper , the first of a two-part presentation, offers a socialogical view of the hospital as an institution within the economic, political, and value systems of the community. Systems theory is the conceptual framework for projecting the potential role of the social worker in health setting. Part 2, in the next issue, will deal with impediments and barriers to effective social work in hospitals as well as solution finding based on systems work in combination with direct service skills.

Hospital Administration↗
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A systems approach to the provision of social work services in health settings: part 2.

In the first part of this presentation published in the last issue, the author offered a sociological view of the hospital as an institution within the economic, political, and value systems of the community. Systems theory is the conceptual base for projecting the potential role of the social worker in the health setting. Part 2, in this issue, deals with impediments and barriers to effective social work in hospitals as well as solution finding based on systems work in combination with direct service skills.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗