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  • Raising the Titanic: Rescuing Social Work Documentation from the Sea of Ethical Risk

    Author(s)
    Cumming, S
    Fitzpatrick, E
    McAuliffe, D
    McKain, S
    Martin, C
    Tonge, A
    Griffith University Author(s)
    McAuliffe, Donna A.
    Year published
    2007
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    Abstract
    One of the most contentious issues in social work practice concerns what should be written about people who access social work services, how comprehensively, and in what format social work assessments, interventions and outcomes should be documented. The present paper describes a structured approach linked to an action research project that was undertaken by hospital social workers to identify and minimise problems associated with documentation in the medical record. The social work ethics audit provided social work staff with a risk management tool that highlighted documentation as a key area of ethical risk. Through a ...
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    One of the most contentious issues in social work practice concerns what should be written about people who access social work services, how comprehensively, and in what format social work assessments, interventions and outcomes should be documented. The present paper describes a structured approach linked to an action research project that was undertaken by hospital social workers to identify and minimise problems associated with documentation in the medical record. The social work ethics audit provided social work staff with a risk management tool that highlighted documentation as a key area of ethical risk. Through a process of evaluation existing recording practices, social workers were able to meet the challenge of improving social work recording in medical records, returning it to its proper place as a vital component of clinical and ethical practice rather than as an administrative task submerged beneath competing priorities. It was anticipated that the social work documentation proforma that resulted from the ethics audit process would have applicability in other health care settings.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Social Work
    Volume
    60
    Issue
    2
    Subject
    Specialist studies in education
    Policy and administration
    Social work
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/17043
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