Serviço social e a internação no hospital geral de palmas: breves reflexões sobre a atuação profissional

Abstract

This Course Conclusion Paper (TCC) exposes the discussion on the study topic that relates social work and hospital admission at the General Hospital of Palmas: brief reflections on professional acting. “The general objective was to analyze the professional practice of social workers in the face of expressions of the social issue in health policy, specifically, in hospital admissions at the Hospital Geral de Palmas (HGP). Our specific objectives attempted to explain the socio-operational dynamics of Social Work in the hospital field, considering the work processes and the instrumentality of the profession in Health policy and reflections related to the role of the social worker within the hospital stay of the (HGP) to contribute to the understanding of this professional practice in Tocantins. This work was the result of the Supervised Internship and its documentary analysis with records from the field diary, bringing the instruments used by social workers during hospitalization at the Hospital Geral de Palmas in their particularity. With the methodological procedures used, the data collection instrument enabled indirect and critical observation, the field diary, and the bibliographic and documentary study allowed us to understand this challenging task for hospitalized users, as many reveal multiple determinations of the social issue.