A identidade do Assistente Social no exercício profissional na saúde: desafios e possibilidades no encaminhamento de suas atribuições e competências

Abstract

This conclusion work addresses the social service in health, seeking to analyze the issue of the professional identity of the social worker in the hospital, its challenges and possibilities in forwarding its attributions and competences in the particularity of Leide Morais Maternity / RN, field of observation and study of this research. Locus where the need for the debate on professional identity and its consequences for quality care permeated by the challenges of the professional routine of the social worker arose. It aims to analyze the social, political and cultural determinations in contemporary times that’s hope the construction of the professional identity of the social worker in health. It also seeks to analyze the performance of social workers in the MLM hospital, in the exercise of their duties and competences, in order to understand their professional identity and behavior. The objectives are pursued and worked on, under the guidance of the National Humanization Policy, the Code of Ethics for Social Work, the law that regulates the profession and the Parameters of Performance of Social Workers in Health, considering that in these texts, social workers, as a category, they must develop a professional practice with competence and skills in a critical perspective in the care provided to users of this institution, in an interdisciplinary team. The methodological path included documentary research based on the field diary, a palpable source of there ports and situations witnessed as an in ternate the institution, as well as a bibliographic survey, involving the literature review that covers the studied problem. The systematized information makes it possible to understand that identity professional appears as guiding the decisions and positions of the social service as a category of work and, this does not exempt from the social and personal constructions of each professional, but allocates to his work the sum between the duties related to the guarantee of rights, to the removal of prejudices, positions and compacting with unethical conduct. It is evident that there is not a plastered formulation of the creation of professional identity, but rather, a (re) construction and continuous reflection determined by what happens in society, about politics, economics, dismantling, struggles and developments in today's society.