Role of Medico-Social Worker (MSW) in Healthcare Settings
Medico-Social Workers (MSWs) play a crucial role in facilitating the adjustment of clients in healthcare settings by addressing social and welfare needs. They act as liaisons between clients, families, and rehabilitation teams, providing individualized services and promoting earlier recovery. MSWs also assist in resource identification, advocate for clients with disabilities, and organize social awareness campaigns to enrich the community about legal provisions and government benefits.
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ROLE OF MEDICO-SOCIAL WORKER (MSW) Dr. Mrugnayani Dept of Sports Physiotherapy MGM Institute Of Physiotherapy Chh. Sambhajinagar
Social work aims at adjustment of an individual or a group within the society. When the client is admitted to the hospital, certain adjustment problems will exist between the client and physician or the hospital and between the client, his family and the community at large. The social worker, who is professionally trained in maintaining good human relationship will shoulders and executes responsibility in meeting the welfare needs of the society. MSW acts as a liaison officer between the client, family and the rehabilitation team apart from nurse. MSW is well familiar with the clients background and tries to bring adjustment between the client and his environment.
MSW provides individualised services to the client and tries to make the client to understand their needs, familiarises circumstances, promotes earlier recovery, aids in ultimate adjustment of the client to the family and society; an integration of physical and social aspects of the client by establishing constructively an active associated relationship. Based on the needs of the individual client, MSW will identify the resources and funding agencies who are ready to assist the disabled client, corresponds with the respective social welfare agencies assist the clients in maintaining or meeting the rehabilitative measures. MSW makes the client accept himself and practices healthier lifestyle by accepting his limitations due to disability.
MSW makes the client to accommodate in his own working environment prior to the disability and if any maladjustment occurs, he will find the ways to place the client according to his ability and limitations in a suitable substituted working setup, where the client will be free from internal conflicts and to lead economically independent with higher psychological integratedness by attaining emotional maturity. MSW organises social awareness campaigns to enrich the community about legal provisions, benefits rendered by government.
The Areas of Work by the MSW Organises IEC activities to increase the awareness of public about social welfare activities Assists in implementation of national health programmes at community level Functions effectively in maternity and child welfare centres Organises guidance and counseling services Informs the focus group about welfare measure such as early registration of antenatal mothers at health centres; institutional delivery, family welfare activities, immunisation, early detection of high risk cases, maternity benefits schemes, registration of vital elements.
The Areas of Work by the MSW For the physically challenged child like polio, the MSW assists in rehabilitation activities by providing necessary accessories like calipers, working aids, etc. Assists in meeting the needs of children with mentally challenged such as cerebral palsy by informing the parents about specialised schools and institutions like care centres like: Spastic society of India In case of social stigma associated diseases like AIDS, venereal disease, leprosy and tuberculosis the MSW assist in rehabilitation activities and placing the client in a suitable environment where they will be free from psychological insults and promotes early recovery and make them selfsufficient in economic welfare. Provides family guidance services to meet the needs of the clients in a healthier, happier familial environment
Collaborates and coordinates with various voluntary health organisations in order to meet the social and economic needs of the clients. In case of infirmaries, i.e. chronically ill patients the medicosocial worker will assist them in curative, rehabilitative and restorative measures. Counsels the family members in meeting the needs of the client and accept the clients problems as it is and helps in prognosis or recovery In psychiatric clinics or mental hospitals MSW assist the psychiatric team members in assessing I.Q levels and categorising or diagnosing the clients condition; based on his capacities and limitation assist the occupational therapist and the client in establishing regenerative, restorative rehabilitative activities. Identifies the financial resources and voluntary agencies for implementing vocational, physical, social, educational rehabilitative measures. Organises guidance and counseling services to the family, client and needy group. Directs the client for suitable jobs by modifying the life style pattern; maintains healthier relationships; acts as a liaison officer between community resources, family, client and psychiatry team.
In general hospitals the MSW maintains humanitarian relationship between health team members, families, clients. Organises and shoulders active participation in implementation of healthier social activities in the institutional set up. Promotes health related social activities at grass-root level by activating the community activities. Maximum efficient measures will be promoted among the community to built up model villages In specialised clinics, like diabetes, STD, cancer hospitals assist the health activities awareness campaigns in self-care modalities and practices, promoting healthier life style, adaptation of good methodology and techniques in promoting their health, preventing the occurrence of complications, reduces the incidence and prevalence of diseases by actively collaborating health awareness measures.
