Social Policies

There are many different social policies that a person going into human services has to become knowledgeable of, because not following these policies could cause one to lose their job, be sued or both. Humans are creatures that have to be handled with care and being that I work in the hospital I see this first hand. A social policy that I may have to deal with in my career as a human services worker at Kaiser is accessibility. This policy reads that hospitals must make all their electronic information and technologies accessible to the disabled. Disabled people should be able to use the same resources as everyone else and be accommodated to do such. A public hospital may include on their website an option for the information to be read aloud to accommodate the blind, and a video of a person translating the information in sign language to accommodate the death. Doing this would allow the disabled community to easily access the information that the site withholds. A private practice on the other hand may include a phone number to a hotline that allows people to access their medical information, or suggest for them to come in to the hospital to get the information. Private practices usually do not have all the resources that public hospitals have, and making their electronic information accessible to the blind and death may be a little harder for them. If I were responsible for implementing this policy I would look into the resources that have been made available to me and see if there was any one of those companies that could assist me. I would then compose a questionnaire for the disabled patients to get their ideas on what would be most effective for them, adjusting the website, creating a special hotline or whatever it takes to make all information accessible to them. To stress the issue to my fellow staff members I would send out memos, and bring it to everyone’s attention in meetings to stress to everyone how important it is that we address it and that it is a