Keywords: Continuum of care, chronic illness, psychosocial factors
Comprehensive Continuum of Care
Introduction …show more content…
When a patient leaves the hospital, care must continue in order to ensure the best prognosis for them. In many cases, there are services offered for the patient that will help make the transition easier for them. With this, several psychosocial factors come into play as well as the interventions to help the patient adjust to their new life. Social workers use these interventions and psychosocial factors to create a discharge plan for the patient. These discharge plans must have recommendations of services the patient can use after the discharge. With any aspect of patient care, there is an always ethical issue that may come up. It is the social workers job to ensure that all ethics codes are being