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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12477
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dc.contributor.advisorAronson, Janeen_US
dc.contributor.advisorSammon, Sheilaen_US
dc.contributor.advisorSinding, Chrisen_US
dc.contributor.authorGoyert, Stefanieen_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-06-18T16:59:47Z-
dc.date.available2014-06-18T16:59:47Z-
dc.date.created2012-09-14en_US
dc.date.issued2012-10en_US
dc.identifier.otheropendissertations/7361en_US
dc.identifier.other8414en_US
dc.identifier.other3321025en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11375/12477-
dc.description.abstract<p>Due to the profound restructuring and erosion of social services and social programs, health and social services have been reorganized using business models that prize efficiency and cost saving rather than client centered service. Literature on social work practice in this context highlights the pressure on practitioners to standardize their work in order to manage higher workloads and to give primacy to employing organizations’ budgetary interests, rather than the interests of clients, patients and communities. Within this regulation of practice lies the regulation of time, yet in the literature there is relatively little explicit focus on the temporal control of social workers, or on how social workers manage and negotiate institutional time controls.</p> <p>This study sought to explore the intricacies of social workers’ negotiation of time pressures in health care settings. It aimed to examine how social workers perceived these time pressures, the strategies they employ to accommodate multiple demands on their time and how, in the end these time pressures influence social work practice.</p> <p>A small qualitative study was employed, using personal interviews to explore the experience of social workers employed in the health care industry. Participants were chosen according to their unique experiences within the health care system. An analysis of participants’ accounts suggests that, in the face of continuous and ever present time pressures, social work in health care is changing. As case loads increase and become more complex, social workers often find themselves negotiating time in order to manage the unavoidable collision between clock time and process time.</p>en_US
dc.subjecttime pressuresen_US
dc.subjectsocial programsen_US
dc.subjectprocess timeen_US
dc.subjectcut backsen_US
dc.subjectmanagement modelen_US
dc.subjectleanen_US
dc.subjectSocial Worken_US
dc.subjectSocial Worken_US
dc.titleSocial Work Practice in Health Care: Time to Care?en_US
dc.typethesisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentSocial Worken_US
dc.description.degreeMaster of Social Work (MSW)en_US
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