title: Introduction: promoting and maintaining a reflective professional staff in a hospital-based social work department.
abstract: Promoting and sustaining a staff of reflective social work practitioners requires a supportive departmental structure and culture. Providing such support is a particular yet necessary challenge to social work administrators in the current health care environment. This article discusses an array of administrative strategies employed in one hospital social work department to promote reflective social work practice. More specifically, it describes the role of practice-based research in enhancing worker reflectiveness.
authors.affiliation: Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Social Work Services, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blumenfield
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Epstein
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel; D002322:Career Mobility; D003625:Data Collection; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007325:Institutional Practice; D009519:New York City; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D012947:Social Work / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards; D012948:Social Work Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013192:Staff Development