PSY5002: Orientation To Graduate Learning In Psychology

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Career Plan Paper Donna K Smith PSY5002 Orientation to Graduate Learning in Psychology Career Plan Paper The Family Birthplace is a maternity unit where expectant mothers go to deliver their babies or receive care when there is an issue involving their pregnancy. With over fifty nurses and double that amount of doctors, The Family Birthplace at Swedish American Hospital services many patients on a day to day basis. For the most part, most patients come in and deliver their babies and within 3-4 days, they are released. However, there are many situations that come up that require social services to step up and become involved with the care of the patient. I have worked for this great hospital for almost ten years. Even though I…show more content…
I learned that Eileen provides many services for the Family Birthplace. Ellen helps new mothers with a number of different services including; financial assistance, supportive services, and assistance with babies who are to be placed in foster care. She is also involved with adoption procedures between the birth mothers and the adoption parents. When a mother comes into the Family Birth Place to deliver, she is told about the services offered by social services. If there are any concerns that Eileen can help her with, she is more than happy to help. Regardless of the patients financial need or family situation, “Everyone deserves assistance when they need it” (Adams, E 2011). According to Eileen, volunteer work is a must in order to become a social worker. Volunteering gives individuals some of the important skills that they need to deal with some of the complex situations that arise. Some other qualifications that are a must for social workers include at least Bachelors in social services, psychology, or sociology. Internship is offered through the most of the colleges that potential social workers attend and they are worked out between the college and the human resource team. You have to at least have your bachelors to be a social worker on the Family Birth place and she believed that was pretty much the case on any other floor unless you were some sort of an assistant to a social…show more content…
She is exposed to so many different types of what she calls unethical situations from mothers who are into drugs and prostitution to single mothers who have had over four children and they are on state aid and are unable to provide for their children on a day to day basis. Eileen knows of many different services to provide her patients with but, sometimes she feels as though these services are taken advantage of by the same people over and over and also by people who really do not try to improve their life situation. I got to hear how troubling it can be to see the same client that you saw a few years ago right back in the same situation with another baby whom the mom cannot support. With that said, she realizes that she has a job to do and she cannot discriminate against anyone simply because of her on ethical beliefs. The hospital has a legal and moral obligation to allow Eileen to provide as much as she can to their patients including services for free powdered milk, car seats, cribs, bus passes, and the list goes on. That is why our unit has our very own Social Worker that is entirely for our unit alone. Eileen told me that for the most part, she is happy to assist anyone with these items and the other services available, just every now and then she finds patients that just want something for nothing. Eileen, who has been on the Family Birth Place

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