New Hope Case Study

I had a spectacular day! Census was very low so there wasn’t much to do as far as case management, so Jamie and I got to spend some time just talking about things and why things are done the way they are. It was nice not rushing from patient to patient and just doing things without really understanding why something is done the way it is done and why.
I knew the social worker at New Hope Rehab walked out last week and I decided to put myself out there and asked about spending some of my hours helping to fill the void of their missing social worker. New Hope is located on the 4th floor of St. Vincent Hospital, but they are technically owned by Kindred Healthcare. Since we coordinate quite a few transfers for patients who have had a stroke or TBI, some of the staff at New Hope knew me or at least knew of me. Honestly, I was hoping they would really like me at New Hope and hire me for the recently vacated social work position. I also wanted to help, because I knew the nurses were inundated with all this extra work since they no longer had a social worker to handle all the discharge planning. …show more content…
I think we were all excited about the prospect of me finishing my hours at New Hope. Although, we ran into a problem when we approached my department supervisor, Pat. She agreed to let me go to New Hope next week, but then she wanted me to come back to either work with Jamie or rotate through the orthopedic and surgical floors since they have the most patients that get transferred to New Hope. At first, I was upset about having to go back to St. Vincent Hospital. There are only 11 weeks left in the internship, I’m not really one my own, per se, I see myself as more of a hindrance than a help, since they are fully staffed again with low