History
Important Acronyms
*Mystery Trivia*
Practices in Action
Careers in the Field
100

Social workers were tasked with teaching about hygiene to prevent the spread of this highly contagious disease during a pandemic in the early 1900s. 

What is Tuberculosis?

100

The meaning behind the acronym NASW.

What is the National Association of Social Workers?

100

Population that healthcare and medical social workers serve.

Who are patients and families in hospital settings?

100

The term of support that healthcare social workers provide.

Hint (Long-term or short-term?) 

What is short-term counseling?

100

The social work role in a hospital setting whose duties include creating discharge plans and explaining treatment plans and transition processes.

What is an inpatient discharge planner/case manager? 

200

The decade Medical Social Work implemented counseling.

What were the 1930s?

200

The meaning behind the acronym LCSW

What is a licensed clinical social worker?

200

A theory that explains that an individual's behavior isn't isolated but instead includes different aspects of their life that impact each other.

 What is Systems Theory?

200

What a medical social worker preforms to evaluate a patient's mental and emotional state.

What are psychosocial assessments?

200

This hospital-setting social work role's duties include de-escalating situations, providing short-term assistance to people going through any kind of distress, and evaluating a patient's crises to find the best help for them.

What is an emergency department crisis responding social worker?

300

The year the first Medical Social Worker was hired in the United States. 

What is the year 1905?

300

The meaning behind the acronym SDOH.

What are social determinants of health?

300

Example of a social determinant of health (SDOH).

- What is economic stability

-What is education access and quality 

-What is healthcare access and quality 

-What is neighborhood and built environment 

-What is social community context

300

Medical or healthcare social workers act as a connection or bridge between these two populations in a hospital setting.

What are patients and the medical team?

300

Social work position responsible for making sure a patient diagnosed with asthma is supplied with an inhaler.

What is an Inpatient discharger/casemanger?

400

The first social worker ever hired in the United States?

 Who is Garnet Pelton?

400

The meaning behind the acronym CCMC.

What is a Commission for Case Manager Certification?

400

A problem that can arise without the intervention of a medical or healthcare social worker.

-What are poorer health outcomes?

-What are increased hospitalizations?

-What are higher healthcare costs?

400

Advocating for policies and changes that will improve patient well-being.

What is policy advocating?

400

Average emergency department crisis-responding social worker salary in West Virginia.

Hint:

A- What is $59,042?

B- What is $72,505?

C-What is $66,239?

What is $59,042?


500

The first year formal training in medical social work was available in the United States. 

What is the year 1912?

500

The meaning behind the acronym ACM.

What is an Acute Crisis Management or Advanced Case Manager

500

True or false, everyone in this presenting group is interested in pursuing a career in hospital-based social work.

What is false?

500

Process in which a social worker helps prepare patients to leave a hospital or facility.

What is discharge planning?

500

State with the highest average salary for an inpatient discharge/case manager in the tristate.

Hint:

-What is Ohio?

-What is West Virginia?

-What is Kentucky? 

What is Kentucky?

($113,217 yearly)