Create a specific scenario in which a crisis may affect a patient in a particular healthcare setting. Select the type of crisis prior to recording and act as the social worker in the ER, nursing home, hospice, or agency setting trying to complete an assessment of the individual and their immediate needs.

 

What us the healthcare setting?

 

What is the crisis? 

 

Answer the questions below:

 

· Introduce yourself to the client and identify the crisis situation the client is experiencing.

 

· Briefly assess the crisis and explain to the client the type of services provided at the health care setting.

 

· Explain your role as a medical social worker in addressing the particular crisis.

 

· Demonstrate how you would intervene with the client to begin resolving the crisis