Importance Of Social Workers In A Hospital

(A Case Study Of Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin City)
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Abstract

This research work was conducted precisely to find out the need for the awareness and relevance of medical social worker in the hospital.  The main instrument that was used in this study was the questionnaire which was designed in a way that will enable the researcher to have strong evidence about the importance of social worker in the hospital, particularly in the Psychiatric Hospital, Uselu, Benin City.  It was also aimed at identifying the various important roles social workers play in the rehabilitation of patient in the hospital.  At the end of the work, useful recommendations were made; some of which are government should encourage all social workers by way of providing them with in-service training.  Enhance remuneration and regular elevation in their places of work as they are made to face the challenges of societal problems everyday

Aims and Objectives

To create awareness about how social workers work with patients and their families.

  1. To enlighten the public about how medical social worker assess the psycho social functioning of patients and their families.
  2. To create awareness on how medical social worker counsel mental patients and their families.  And how social workers help to expand and strengthen the network of support to patients.
  3. To create awareness based on how social worker’s plan and conduct programmes to prevent substance abuse or improve health and counselling in community.
  4. To educate the public about how medical social worker’s intervene as advocate for patients to resolve emergency problem.
  5. To create awareness, formulate or co-ordinate programmes plan for treatment, care and rehabilitation of patients based on social worker experience and knowledge.
Chapter Three

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In writing a research report of this nature, the significance of a methodology cannot be over emphasized.  The purpose of this chapter then is to place in context the logical basis for the collection and subsequent analysis of data.  Here, attention is given to the procedure adopted in determining the sample size, the sampling technique and the problem encountered in the course of the administration of research instrument.  The data analysis method will also be included……[chapter 3 continues]

Chapter Four

DATA ANALYSIS

The data collected from the agency provided the basis for validating or rejecting hypothesis.  The responses with the highest or lowest percentage were method employed.

The survey was drawn from the Federal Neuro Psychiatric Yaba, Lagos.  The hypothesis is the study that the researcher seeks to validate or repute as follows:

  1. That medical social worker is as important as medical doctor.
  2. That the counselling of medical social workers has made patients to know that drug abuse is bad and should be avoided….

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