Choose one of the following biopsychosocial assessment tools to analyze for this assignment (Pick one of the three tools attached). Select the tool you might be most likely to use in your preferred healthcare work setting. (FYI: the case study is just any example of a case, but the assessment tool is being measured in the assignment).
Home Care Example: http://www.matrixhomecare.com/Forms/Medical%20Social%20Work%20Assessment.pdf
Nursing Home Example: https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits/Downloads/Archive-Draft-of-the-MDS-30-Nursing-Home-Comprehensive-NC-Version-1140.pdf
Hospice Example: https://www.nhpco.org/sites/default/files/public/nchpp/SWAT_Information_Booklet.pdf
In a 3-4 page paper:
· Assess the overall tool you selected to analyze for this assignment. In your assessment, explain whether you believe there are questions that were not addressed and why you think that may be important.
· Explain whether or not the assessment is strengths-based.
· Identify other professionals in healthcare who may have input into the assessment.
· Identify any sections of the assessment tool that are best completed by other healthcare professionals and explain why.
· Consider the implications of various professionals disagreeing over the assessment content and discuss how would you mitigate those challenges.
· Explain how psychosocial issues (including policy and legal issues) might impact the patient’s medical care and/or health outcomes and the role of the social worker in assessing and addressing those issues on an interdisciplinary healthcare team.