On November 4, 2016, I visited the Sierra Valley Rehab Center to do a job shadow for my senior project. I job shadowed a 25 year old social services director named Conjellyfer Galang. I chose to go to the Sierra Valley Rehab Center because I’m interested in the roles a social services director plays in a well-built industry, like what they do every day and also some of the obstacles that come with the job. When I first entered the building I had a feeling of nervousness since I’d never met the person I was job shadowing I’ve only talked to her over the phone. But that nervousness soon diminished when she greeted me with a Starbucks coffee, I was not expecting to be presented with that since it was our first encounter with each other. But once we're done introducing ourselves and talking for a bit the awkwardness seemed to go away. Once we got acquainted with each other she showed me around showing me her office first then she showed me where all the residents that the nurses takes care of go and interact with one another. After she showed me around we then went back into her office so she could answer some important phone calls, I noticed that when you’re a social services director you get a lot of phone calls throughout the day. When she realized that the phone calls might take a little longer than expected she decided to send me to go watch a video that is required to be watched by everyone that works in the Sierra Valley Rehab center. It’s a twenty minute video informing and telling you how/why the resident’s privacy is important. It gives you scenarios in which you are put in a situation where you are getting pressured into giving out a resident’s private information and what you should and shouldn’t do so you don’t put that resident’s privacy in danger. It tells you that no matter what you can’t release any information unless it’s to the resident or people on their face sheet. A face sheet is a sheet of people that can be talked to about the resident’s privacy. The sheet involves a picture of the person there name, address, social security number, birthdate, where they were born, their primary physician, their contact information, and their top ten medical diagnosis. If someone calls, and would like information about the resident, they would have to be on their contact list to find out info. If for some reason someone would give out the info, and they were not on the face sheet that person would be committing a HIPAA violation. The meaning of HIPAA is a US law that protects individual’s privacy. It stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This protects you from people finding out your personal diagnosis and information about you as an individual. After I finished watching the video I met back up with Conjellyfer to see what was next for the day. Conjellyfer explained to me that being a Social Worker contains multiple tasks that involve one on one with residents, in groups, and with other departments throughout the facility. For example: Conjellyfer has two assistants, and they share multiple tasks throughout the social services department. They handle the beauty shop, eye, dental, podiatry, and hearing. They schedule all the appointments for these things monthly, and they also make sure that the residents are seen yearly. One of her assistants handles the medical for all of the long term residents, including their re-determination applications, and she also helps the short term residents apply for medical if needed. They also do theft and loss reports, for any personal belongings that might come up missing, lost or damaged by the facility. Social Services are involved with the resident’s petty cash for when they would like to have a few bucks on them. They handle questions and concerns from the residents, and their families if needed. They assist residents to their Dr. Appointments if other staff is unable to go. This is just a few of the things that the assistants do, there is about a total of 21 different things that they do on a daily basis. As for Conjellyfer her job consists of multiple things as well. She has to make sure that her Assistants are keeping busy, and doing their jobs correctly. She has a schedule of residents that have to have assessments done on them daily. The assessment that she interviews the resident with consists of a personal, medical, cognitive, mood, behavior, and discharge interviews. She basically asks the resident if they know their name , where they are, the month, the year, if they are depressed, have a poor appetite, having trouble sleeping, and what is their plan after therapy, if they anticipate on discharging to home. Then she asks the staff and the Charge Nurse if that resident has any behaviors, such as being physically, or verbally abusive. If they have unusual behaviors such as screaming, making disruptive sounds, or delusional thoughts or hallucinations. And what kind of psych medications that they might be taking. With all of this information that is collected not only from the Social Services department is used to create a plan of care for the resident, so that they can help provide the proper care for the resident so that they can discharge back to the community without any further complications. She also is the supervisor for the transportation department. She over sees that the residents are being transported to their Dr. Appointments in a timely manner. Conjellyfer has multiple meetings throughout the week if not daily; these meetings run into most of all the other departments. Social Services are also a main reporter to the local Ombudsman for any type of abuse that may acure to a resident. An ombudsman is an advocate for residents rights, to make sure that they are being treated fairly, and that their rights are not being taken away from them. All though I did not get to experience all of the detail that was explained to me by Conjellyfer, there was a lot of one on one with residents that were beneficial. This is a job that consists of a lot of patience and redirecting. There were multiple knocks on the door, and phone calls in the office throughout the day. To be able to be productive in this type of job you must be able to multitask. As for all that I experience in this job shadow, I enjoyed the one on one with residents. There were a lot of different age groups that reside in this nursing home. So that made it interesting to know why they were in the home, and if they are going to be leaving. I experienced some of the behaviors that they have, such as attention seeking or making sure they don’t miss their bingo at all, for that is the most important activity of the day for them. These residents do not get the privilege of just walking down to the store when they want to, or going to get a burger when they want to, they are stuck in this home due to the fact that they cannot take care of themselves, or have any family that can help them. This makes me sad and to think that we are very fortunate to be young and are able to acknowledge that one day this might be us. So as for me being interested in this type of job, yes I would love to work as a social services director. To know that I would be helping an individual be happy, and to feel at home would be a blessing. For one day I might need the same thing. On November 4, 2016, I visited the Sierra Valley Rehab Center to do a job shadow for my senior project. I job shadowed a 25 year old social services director named Conjellyfer Galang. I chose to go to the Sierra Valley Rehab Center because I’m interested in the roles a social services director plays in a well-built industry, like what they do every day and also some of the obstacles that come with the job. When I first entered the building I had a feeling of nervousness since I’d never met the person I was job shadowing I’ve only talked to her over the phone. But that nervousness soon diminished when she greeted me with a Starbucks coffee, I was not expecting to be presented with that since it was our first encounter with each other. But once we're done introducing ourselves and talking for a bit the awkwardness seemed to go away. Once we got acquainted with each other she showed me around showing me her office first then she showed me where all the residents that the nurses takes care of go and interact with one another. After she showed me around we then went back into her office so she could answer some important phone calls, I noticed that when you’re a social services director you get a lot of phone calls throughout the day. When she realized that the phone calls might take a little longer than expected she decided to send me to go watch a video that is required to be watched by everyone that works in the Sierra Valley Rehab center. It’s a twenty minute video informing and telling you how/why the resident’s privacy is important. It gives you scenarios in which you are put in a situation where you are getting pressured into giving out a resident’s private information and what you should and shouldn’t do so you don’t put that resident’s privacy in danger. It tells you that no matter what you can’t release any information unless it’s to the resident or people on their face sheet. A face sheet is a sheet of people that can be talked to about the resident’s privacy. The sheet involves a picture of the person there name, address, social security number, birthdate, where they were born, their primary physician, their contact information, and their top ten medical diagnosis. If someone calls, and would like information about the resident, they would have to be on their contact list to find out info. If for some reason someone would give out the info, and they were not on the face sheet that person would be committing a HIPAA violation. The meaning of HIPAA is a US law that protects individual’s privacy. It stands for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. This protects you from people finding out your personal diagnosis and information about you as an individual. After I finished watching the video I met back up with Conjellyfer to see what was next for the day. Conjellyfer explained to me that being a Social Worker contains multiple tasks that involve one on one with residents, in groups, and with other departments throughout the facility. For example: Conjellyfer has two assistants, and they share multiple tasks throughout the social services department. They handle the beauty shop, eye, dental, podiatry, and hearing. They schedule all the appointments for these things monthly, and they also make sure that the residents are seen yearly. One of her assistants handles the medical for all of the long term residents, including their re-determination applications, and she also helps the short term residents apply for medical if needed. They also do theft and loss reports, for any personal belongings that might come up missing, lost or damaged by the facility. Social Services are involved with the resident’s petty cash for when they would like to have a few bucks on them. They handle questions and concerns from the residents, and their families if needed. They assist residents to their Dr. Appointments if other staff is unable to go. This is just a few of the things that the assistants do, there is about a total of 21 different things that they do on a daily basis. As for Conjellyfer her job consists of multiple things as well. She has to make sure that her Assistants are keeping busy, and doing their jobs correctly. She has a schedule of residents that have to have assessments done on them daily. The assessment that she interviews the resident with consists of a personal, medical, cognitive, mood, behavior, and discharge interviews. She basically asks the resident if they know their name , where they are, the month, the year, if they are depressed, have a poor appetite, having trouble sleeping, and what is their plan after therapy, if they anticipate on discharging to home. Then she asks the staff and the Charge Nurse if that resident has any behaviors, such as being physically, or verbally abusive. If they have unusual behaviors such as screaming, making disruptive sounds, or delusional thoughts or hallucinations. And what kind of psych medications that they might be taking. With all of this information that is collected not only from the Social Services department is used to create a plan of care for the resident, so that they can help provide the proper care for the resident so that they can discharge back to the community without any further complications. She also is the supervisor for the transportation department. She over sees that the residents are being transported to their Dr. Appointments in a timely manner. Conjellyfer has multiple meetings throughout the week if not daily; these meetings run into most of all the other departments. Social Services are also a main reporter to the local Ombudsman for any type of abuse that may acure to a resident. An ombudsman is an advocate for residents rights, to make sure that they are being treated fairly, and that their rights are not being taken away from them. All though I did not get to experience all of the detail that was explained to me by Conjellyfer, there was a lot of one on one with residents that were beneficial. This is a job that consists of a lot of patience and redirecting. There were multiple knocks on the door, and phone calls in the office throughout the day. To be able to be productive in this type of job you must be able to multitask. As for all that I experience in this job shadow, I enjoyed the one on one with residents. There were a lot of different age groups that reside in this nursing home. So that made it interesting to know why they were in the home, and if they are going to be leaving. I experienced some of the behaviors that they have, such as attention seeking or making sure they don’t miss their bingo at all, for that is the most important activity of the day for them. These residents do not get the privilege of just walking down to the store when they want to, or going to get a burger when they want to, they are stuck in this home due to the fact that they cannot take care of themselves, or have any family that can help them. This makes me sad and to think that we are very fortunate to be young and are able to acknowledge that one day this might be us. So as for me being interested in this type of job, yes I would love to work as a social services director. To know that I would be helping an individual be happy, and to feel at home would be a blessing. For one day I might need the same thing.