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dc.contributor.authorCumming, S
dc.contributor.authorFitzpatrick, E
dc.contributor.authorMcAuliffe, D
dc.contributor.authorMcKain, S
dc.contributor.authorMartin, C
dc.contributor.authorTonge, A
dc.contributor.editorChristine Bigby & Mel Gray
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:17:24Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:17:24Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.date.modified2008-02-14T23:14:20Z
dc.identifier.issn0312-407X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/17043
dc.description.abstractOne 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.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom239
dc.relation.ispartofpageto257
dc.relation.ispartofeditionJune 2007
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Social Work
dc.relation.ispartofvolume60
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolicy and administration
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSocial work
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4407
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4409
dc.titleRaising the Titanic: Rescuing Social Work Documentation from the Sea of Ethical Risk
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2007
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorMcAuliffe, Donna A.


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