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Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 18

You know that one of the buildings where I work is a fortress , right? The way I get into the actual building is through some electronic keypad system. Not a number pad, mind, which is what comes to mind, I'm sure. It's something else: I have...

Published 14 Sep 2009 5:39 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 17

Read: Being SO excited and focused on posting a micro-entry for your blog from your phone at work (Woot! No evidence on the servers! I win!) that you walk down three sets of stairs, across the vast expanse of hospital lobby, out the door, down another...

Published 29 Aug 2009 9:23 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 16

You know that you're the very essence of a professional when you've arrived at the ER, spoken to the nurse and doc invovled with your patient, completed initial paperwork, gone in to see the patient, conducted a full assessment to the tune of...

Published 30 Jul 2009 5:08 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 15

Hospital social worker 101: Read the chart before going in the room to visit the patient. Because as I mentioned this week, people lie to you. Oh, yes. They do. They lie, lie, LIE about how much they drink. About how much they pop pills. About how many...

Published 9 Jul 2009 3:04 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: drug addiction, overdose, Stupid social worker tricks
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode 14

o I let myself get into a power struggle not long ago. I got called to assess someone who had been drinking and then cut her wrists. My first indication that things might not go so well, given to me in black and white within a few minutes of walking in...

Published 2 Feb 2009 5:48 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: alcohol, Stupid social worker tricks, suicide
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, Episode Lucky Number 13*

A thought hit me like a bolt of lightening the other night, one that I'd never considered before. One hospital that I work in has a policy that states a sitter must be in a room at all times if there is someone there who has made a suicide attempt...

Published 5 Dec 2008 11:00 AM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks
Stupid Social Work Tricks, Episode 12

It's the ever loving conference days. They throw me for a loop. I had one recently on suicide, which was quite good incidentally, and I made a point of checking the start time of conference the night before. As an aside here, I don't keep the...

Published 23 Oct 2008 2:02 PM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks
Stupid Social Worker Tricks, episode.....what number AM I on?

OH! Number 11. Pair 'o legs. So it's a really, really good idea, when you drive to your regular hospital at an irregular time and park in an irregular lot to visit an irregular floor to actually, you know, make note of where your vehicle IS before...

Published 17 Oct 2008 11:00 AM by Trench Warfare

Filed under: Stupid social worker tricks

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