Best piece of advice I can give as a medical social worker (LCSW) is to remember that this, whether in-patient or out-patient, home care, clinic centers, or whatever, is a Nursing-centered business (and a doctor-contributing business), and nurses are the driving force behind all ancillary positions. So, GET AS MUCH MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AS YOU CAN! After twenty-three years of medical social work (after broad experience in DCFS, Domestic Violence, Corrections, and MR/DD), I took a few years off, went to Nursing school and obtained my RN. I can't tell you how much it augments my medical social work. I firmly belive that one cannot be accomplished in medical social work without some kind of "medical" education.
Hi! Thanks for sharing, I just planned my first upcoming year (Fall/Spring). I was interested in my school's healthcare track. I'm taking Oncology social work this semester and then medical social work the following semester, along with starting a self-motivated internship with one of the school's affiliated agencies. Do you recommend any types of particular medical-social work types of classes to look for in order to work in all those capacities you mentioned? Thank you for your time, your comment was super helpful.
Thank you for confirming what I was thinking. I am a former psych nurse with much medical knowledge in psych and medical surgical. I was also a medical transcriptionist, so I am leaning toward becoming a hospital medical social worker. My heart has always been in nursing, but due to an accident that left me with back issues, I could no longer keep up with the physical demands of bedside nursing. Looking at medical social workers gives me hope that I could still get that feel and experience of nursing without the heavy lifting. I love bedside nursing, as a former LVN who went the psych route but always loved medical surgical the most. I also have the desire to provide mental healthcare or counsel so I am hoping to fulfill that with hospital social work. Any advice, feedback, and thoughts regarding this I would greatly appreciate.
I have passed Master degree in social work, four years experience as a District Project Officer T.B eradication in W.H.O , under federal Ministry Health Project .at District kashmor in Pakistan, one and half years experience in L.E.D project. As a senior social Mobilizer,
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Best piece of advice I can give as a medical social worker (LCSW) is to remember that this, whether in-patient or out-patient, home care, clinic centers, or whatever, is a Nursing-centered business (and a doctor-contributing business), and nurses are the driving force behind all ancillary positions. So, GET AS MUCH MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AS YOU CAN! After twenty-three years of medical social work (after broad experience in DCFS, Domestic Violence, Corrections, and MR/DD), I took a few years off, went to Nursing school and obtained my RN. I can't tell you how much it augments my medical social work. I firmly belive that one cannot be accomplished in medical social work without some kind of "medical" education.
Hi! Thanks for sharing, I just planned my first upcoming year (Fall/Spring). I was interested in my school's healthcare track. I'm taking Oncology social work this semester and then medical social work the following semester, along with starting a self-motivated internship with one of the school's affiliated agencies.
Do you recommend any types of particular medical-social work types of classes to look for in order to work in all those capacities you mentioned? Thank you for your time, your comment was super helpful.
Thank you for confirming what I was thinking. I am a former psych nurse with much medical knowledge in psych and medical surgical. I was also a medical transcriptionist, so I am leaning toward becoming a hospital medical social worker. My heart has always been in nursing, but due to an accident that left me with back issues, I could no longer keep up with the physical demands of bedside nursing. Looking at medical social workers gives me hope that I could still get that feel and experience of nursing without the heavy lifting. I love bedside nursing, as a former LVN who went the psych route but always loved medical surgical the most. I also have the desire to provide mental healthcare or counsel so I am hoping to fulfill that with hospital social work. Any advice, feedback, and thoughts regarding this I would greatly appreciate.
I have passed Master degree in social work, four years experience as a District Project Officer T.B eradication in W.H.O , under federal Ministry Health Project .at District kashmor in Pakistan, one and half years experience in L.E.D project. As a senior social Mobilizer,