Thanks.

Also, there are weekly care team meetings in which you can learn about the patients’ medical conditions. I am a social worker and when I worked with a hospice, I ended up gaining a lot of knowledge that in turn helped my patients.

In some states, if you get a job in a specialized area, such as medical social work, but you have no direct experience in it, you may be required to meet with a clinical supervisor. That person will review your work and discuss it with you. This is usually set up and paid for by your company, either with existing staff or it may be contracted out. Either way, this provides more education.

Since many of these jobs are entry level, you can get hired without prior medical social work experience, you just have to have a social work license.

Hope this helps.

We need to lose this idea that to be rich is to be evil and to be poor is to be virtuous. The reality is that there are good and evil people who are rich and good and evil people who are poor.

Also, God wants us to have all our needs met and wants us to prosper financially. How do I know? I read His Word.

God delights in his children being rich, but he tells us never to forget the poor.

The idea that being poor is virtuous was promoted by Constantine. He thought it was holy to give your wealth to the church (in other words to give it to him). This promoted two conditions that helped him. It made him richer and it made him more powerful, since poor people are less empowered and not able to object to being treated poorly themselves and they also can’t stop others from being mistreated.

Wealth is merely an amplifier. It can be used for good or evil. Many who have great wealth have done great evil because they have had the means to do more of what they usually do. Others with great wealth have done great good because they were able to do more of what they usually do.

Then, isn’t it wise to wish that good people get wealth, because they will use it for good and society will be better for it?

I am disturbed by Gary’s criticism of those professional social workers who earn a good living. I found several colleagues at the NASW Florida Chapter conference who share his same view: if we work with the poor, we must remain in poverty ourselves. I call that pure nonsense!

NASW is a professional association that advocates for social work jobs and salaries. We are well-educated professionals, and the MSW requires almost twice the number of academic hours, PLUS field placement, than other masters level programs. Do we not deserve to earn a good living? In delivering loving-kindness to our clients, should we not deliver loving-kindness to ourselves?

It’s no crime to serve people and live well yourself.

I’m also reminded of the similarity between the ideas promoted in this blog post to an article authored by Dr. Flynn in 2007 describing the social work mission at USC: “Most social workers don’t work with the poor anymore, but with the mentally ill, in schools, hospitals, substance abuse, and aging… The majority of new social work schools are small, rural, or church-related,training foot soldiers. We need that, and I
don’t mind supporting that. “But that’s not how we prepare our students.

We charge so much, we have to prepare
them for something different and more
broad. We have a special role as private universities.

I’m interested in preparing our students
for the exceptional. When we do place
them in conventional roles, we train them to
do exceptional things. … But others are working at Ernst & Young, in management and
consulting, in public policy … “Private universities have to do training for leadership. If we don’t, we lose the rationale for a certain kind of existence. Once public universities took on the role of public service, private schools had to take on a different role…
“There’s a trend toward privatization in all facets of human services. No sector remains without a large for-profit sector. We have to train social workers to
be in those for-profit sectors, helping those sectors to be more humanitarian.”

Yes. To be more humanitarian, that final saving grace.

But let’s not linger on the suggestion that such schools “…charge so much, we have to prepare them (social work students) for something different… If we don’t, we lose the rationale for a certain kind of existence.”

http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/research/SocialImpact/Documents/Image%20of%20Social%20Work.pdf