Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health Care & Social Service Workers

Author(s):  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Irena Leliūgienė ◽  
Inga Stūglytė – Novickienė ◽  
Angelė Kaušylienė

The article introduces the significance of social worker's assistance to prospective foster parents: a case of an X Lithuanian town. The best place for the child development and improvement is the family. For some reasons not all the children are raised in families. Some children have no possibility to live with their biological families, therefore according to the established legislation, they live in foster homes under the supervision of foster parents or are adopted. Children adoption in our country is regulated by different acts of legislation. The activity of the ombudsperson for children’s rights is governed by the Law on the Ombudsman for Children Rights Protection of the Republic of Lithuania (2000), Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania, Regulations of organization and management of children guardianship (2002), etc. Research <strong>aim</strong> is to analyze the social service worker's assistance to the prospective foster parents. The following objectives to reach our <strong>goal</strong> are presented: to analyze theoretical conception of adoption procedure and enforcement; to discuss the system of the social service workers’ assistance to prospective foster parents; to investigate foster parents' approach towards the social service worker's assistance and to reveal the main problems. <strong>Research methods</strong>: analysis of the scientific literature – scientific analysis of adoption issues. The stages of adoption procedures and the requirements overviewed and analysed are provided; document analysis: documents, acts of legislation, laws and regulations of child adoption regulations are analysed and overviewed; a qualitative study: semi-structured interview, analyzing the foster parents' approach towards the social service workers' assistance; problems and probable solutions are identified. The research results are obtained by content analysis. <strong>The article presents the following generalizations:</strong> 1) adoption is considered as a social process when specific rights and responsibilities are provided to foster parents in order to guarantee the child's safety. In case of inter-country adoption, the adoption opportunities are estimated, the child is prepared for the adoption and the family for the child is selected. At that period foster parents face internal and external factors. Seeking to grant the children rights and smooth adoption process, professional social workers should coordinate it; 2) institution of the Ombudsman for Children Rights of the Republic of Lithuania and State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labour are also engaged in the adoption and foster care; 3) the research results reveal that the biggest problems for prospective foster parents are extensively long adoption period, lack of social service workers' assistance and poor knowledge on the available assistance.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 (3)) ◽  
pp. 59-69
Author(s):  
Danuta Kurzyna-Chmiel

The legislator considers the term “educational system” as one of the basic education laws. The legal term (included in the Education Law Act) “the educational system covers” lists its elements. They include, for example, various types of schools, kindergartens, alternative forms of preschool education, children’s holiday homes, centers of education. This system realizes recognized values, principles, as well as certain postulates and guidelines contained in the law. In essence, it is a collection of organizational units, whose activity is regulated by the Education Law Act. The majority of these activities are addressed to pupils. Some elements are also addressed to teachers and serve to develop them. Colleges of Social Service Workers do not fit in with the rest of the educational system.


2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudershan Pasupuleti ◽  
Reva I. Allen ◽  
Eric G. Lambert ◽  
Terry Cluse-Tolar

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-235
Author(s):  
Jennifer Roark ◽  
Jessica Lucero ◽  
Curtis Smith ◽  
David Parker

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Kollbrunner ◽  
Rost Michael ◽  
Koné Insa ◽  
Zimmermann Bettina ◽  
Padrutt Yvonne ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Due to rising health care costs, in 2012 Switzerland introduced SwissDRG, a reimbursement system for hospitals based on lump sums per case. To circumvent possible negative consequences like reduction in length of stay, acute and transitional care (ATC) was anchored into the law (Federal act on health insurance) in 2011. ATC as a discharge option is applicable to patients with no capacity for rehabilitation, but are unable to return home and are in need of temporary professional nursing care. ATC is associated with higher out of pocket costs to the patient than rehabilitation. Since social service workers are responsible for organizing discharge of patients with ongoing care needs after hospitalization, the aim of this study was to investigate how social service workers manage patient discharge in light of the new discharge option ATC. Methods Data was collected from 660 medical records of inpatients from Zurich's municipal hospital, Triemli, in 2016. We compared patients discharged to ATC and rehabilitation using inferential statistics and qualitatively analyzed written statements from social service workers. Results Our results showed that patients discharged to rehabilitation had a higher total number of discussions, but a shorter duration of discussions. Patients discharged to rehabilitation faced more delays, above all because of unavailability of free places. Conflicts concerning discharge arose mainly because of costs, discharge placement and too early discharge. Conclusions Our findings demonstrate how important social service workers are in explaining to patients about different discharge options. The newness of SwissDRG and ATC is still likely to cause longer discussion times and, consequently, more workload for social service workers. Only a small fraction of patients disagreed with their place of discharge, mostly due to financial reasons.


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