Social Work in the hospital scope: assigned to the Social Worker in a Emergency Room

Abstract

The present text aims to explain the current challenges to the materialization of the Private Duties and
Professional Competences of the social worker in Emergency Units in the hospital, in order to relate
them to the identity attributed to the Social Work professional in these units. The discussion becomes
relevant insofar as it intends to give visibility to the work of the Social Work professional in the hospital
context, specifically in Emergency Relief Units. In this sense, this article raises the following question:
What are the current challenges to the materialization of the Private Duties and Professional
Competences of the social worker in a Emergency Unit within the hospital? In this sense, the present
article was elaborated based on a documentary research, which was characterized as qualitative of
exploratory nature, as well as it was structured based on the dialectic-critical method. At the end of the
study it was possible to show that the social worker encounters several challenges in his socialoccupational
space. Having to deal with the contradiction of the medical assistance actions and the
actions directed to the proposals of the Unified Health System -SUS, which causes some professionals
who work in the Emergency Room do not understand the role of the Social Work professional. Because
of this, the Social Worker has in his work context a reality of resistance in the defense of his professional
identity, in order to materialize his duties and competences in the hospital scope.