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Role of Social Worker in South-Bohemian Hospitals
HORŇÁKOVÁ, Dagmar
This thesis focuses on the role of social workers in South-Bohemian hospitals - their duties, their role as part of the multidisciplinary team caring for a patient, how their profession is viewed by their work colleagues, and how social workers perceive their role within the hospital. The main focus is on various dilemmas and the possible scope of social work in the hospital. The thesis is composed of two main parts - the theoretical part and the practical one. The theoretical part discusses the terms "social worker" and "medical social worker", how social workers operate within the hospital, and what the legislative basis for their work is. The theoretical part also takes a closer look at the dilemmas of social work that social workers can encounter in their job, and describes the patient target groups that social workers most often work with .In the practical part, the research of three areas of inquiry has been made, revealing that the most important prerequisites of a social worker in a hospital are social and medical education, a clearly defined role within the team taking care of the patient, and a good knowledge of social services network, whose assistance is offered to the patients by the social worker as part of the social help during their stay in the hospital. The biggest obstacle in a social worker's job is the large volume of administrative work, when the work with patients itself is done at the expense of the administrative workload. The appropriate solution seems to be an increase in the number of social workers in the hospital, whose job it is to take some load off the busy medical staff.
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