Discussion: Social Work Competence

The term competence connotes a level of preparedness for addressing issues and maintaining a high standard of practice with clients.Competent social workers have completed adequate preparations for license, and they are appropriately credentialed. They adhere to ethical practices by maintaining professional boundaries and honoring commitments to confidentiality. How might you demonstrate your competence as a social worker? How can you recognize competence in other social workers?

For this Discussion, review this week’s Readings. Think about elements in the articles that denote competence.

By Day 4

Post a description of at least two criteria that define competence in social work. Give an example of each criterion of competence and justify your selection.

The Assignment

1. Analyze the subjective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.
2. Analyze the objective portion of the note. List additional information that should be included in the documentation.
3. Is the assessment supported by the subjective and objective information? Why or why not?
4. What diagnostic tests would be appropriate for this case, and how would the results be used to make a diagnosis?
5. Would you reject/accept the current diagnosis? Why or why not? Identify five possible conditions that may be considered as a differential diagnosis for this patient. Explain your reasoning using at least three different references from current evidence-based literature.

In this Assessment 1 Assignment:

You will analyze an Episodic Note case study that describes abnormal findings in patients seen in a clinical setting. 

You will consider what history should be collected from the patients, as well as which physical exams and diagnostic tests should be conducted. 

You will also formulate a differential diagnosis with several possible conditions.

Review the following Episodic note case study for this Assignment: See Below

Assessment of the Abdomen and

Gastrointestinal System

ABDOMINAL ASSESSMENT:

Subjective:

• CC: “My stomach hurts, I have diarrhea and nothing seems to help.”

• HPI: JR, 47 yo WM, complains of having generalized abdominal pain that started

3 days ago. He has not taken any medications because he did not know what to

take. He states the pain is a 5/10 today but has been as much as 9/10 when it

first started. He has been able to eat, with some nausea afterwards.

• PMH: HTN, Diabetes, hx of GI bleed 4 years ago

• Medications: Lisinopril 10mg, Amlodipine 5 mg, Metformin 1000mg, Lantus 10

units qhs

• Allergies: NKDA

• FH: No hx of colon cancer, Father hx DMT2, HTN, Mother hx HTN,

Hyperlipidemia, GERD

• Social: Denies tobacco use; occasional etoh, married, 3 children (1 girl, 2 boys)

Objective:

• VS: Temp 99.8; BP 160/86; RR 16; P 92; HT 5’10”; WT 248lbs

• Heart: RRR, no murmurs

• Lungs: CTA, chest wall symmetrical

• Skin: Intact without lesions, no urticaria

• Abd: soft, hyperactive bowel sounds, pos pain in the LLQ

• Diagnostics: None

Assessment:

• Left lower quadrant pain

• Gastroenteritis

PLAN: 

Please answer the following question in your initial post:

Describe how you apply the first step (assessment) of the nursing process in your current practice setting. If you are not currently practicing as an RN, you may use an example from a prior clinical or work experience. Include the following information:

• Briefly describe your practice setting and the typical patient population.
• Provide examples of key subjective and objective data points you collect.
• Describe how you document your findings. Is there technology involved?
• Describe your process of data analysis. What is the end result of this process? (i.e., Do you formulate nursing diagnoses and care plans, collaborate with others and/or make referrals?)

Remember to use and credit the textbook or lesson, as well as an outside scholarly source, for full credit.

locate an article that reports on the quality of healthcare services. The article must be sourced from the mass media and not from an academic or healthcare journal. The purpose of this assignment is to review information reported to the general public in a news source that does not exclusively cover healthcare issues. Weekly magazines, such as Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, Forbes, Money, and Consumer Reports, and newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, would be appropriate choices. The article may give various examples of good or bad quality instead of covering just one episode of care. Your selected article must be a comprehensive review or assessment of some aspect of healthcare services. Summarize the article. Be certain to indicate the basis for the report, that is, whether it is the result of academic research, an independent investigation, or something else.
Answer the following questions.

• Summarize what conditions, processes, or events are noted as good quality or poor quality healthcare in the article. What is your own assessment of these conditions, processes, or events? Explain.
• Does the article assign responsibility to persons or processes for the problems or achievements it reports? Does it provide sufficient evidence for assigning responsibility? Explain your answers.
• Assess the suggestions for healthcare quality improvement in the article.
  Explain your reaction to this article as a consumer of healthcare services. In answering this question, note how the article uses language and any persuasive techniques.
• Explain your reaction to this article as a provider of healthcare services. Why is this reaction the same as or different from your reaction as a consumer?
• Is the article fair in its reporting and assessing healthcare quality? Why or why not?
• Submission Details:
• To support your work, use your course and textbook readings and also use the South University Online Library. As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format.
• Your initial posting should be addressed at 300-500 words. 

1. Download the required NR305 Week 2 Personal Lifestyle Form March19 (Links to an external site.). You will document your responses to the profile using this MS Word document.
2. Complete the Life and Health Practices Profile, using yourself as the client. Please document your responses professionally, as you would in a client’s actual health record. Provide enough information to have answered the questions completely. For clarity, write full sentences in your documentation. To receive full credit, all questions must be addressed, except for those indicated as optional. If a question does not apply to you, please indicate this in the findings as “N/A”.
3. Once you have completed the profile, type your answers to the three questions listed under the form. APA format is not a requirement, however, please write in paragraph form when appropriate. Sentence structure, spelling, and grammar are important.

Instructions

Based on what you have learned so far, you now have another opportunity to help parents. Select a grade level, kindergarten through 12th grade, as the focus of this assignment. Assume some of your students’ parents are concerned about motivating their children to successfully learn. Compose an email to these concerned parents in which you address the following:

• Explain the effects motivation has on learning and behavior. Provide examples specific to your targeted age group.
• Determine how you can maximize productive feelings and minimize counterproductive feelings related to school and academic success.
• Select strategies you intend to use to address students’ basic needs in the classroom. 

Support your assignment with at least three scholarly resources. In addition to these specified resources, other appropriate scholarly resources, including seminal articles, may be included. 

Length: 3-5 pages, not including title and reference pages

Format: Appropriate subject line, Signature line, and greeting to parent(s) by name