Emergency unit service in an interdisciplinary perspective: social service's activity experience

Abstract

This work&";s purpose is to socialize the experience performed by the Social Service at the Referenced Emergency Unit from Hospital das Clínicas. The activity named as "reception" is oriented to bring closer the Social Service and Medicine teams in view of an interdisciplinary intervention at the Unit. Currently, this work is performed with the Medical Clinic residents and occurs with monthly frequence. During the professionals&"; arrival to the Emergency, a meeting is held, aiming to clarify the Social Service&";s competences and assignments and reflect the possibilities to build an interdisciplinary work, so that the services to the population be skilled and supported by the perspective proposed by the Health Reform, in which health means beyond the lack of diseases, and who has its interfaces on the social determinations. This understanding demands new service configurations and the awakening of new views to the subjects who seek service every day. Therefore, the different professionals who develop their activities at the field are convoked to act before challenging elements involving the population&";s health and their life and labor conditions. Thus, the interdisciplinarity arises as a contribution opportunity by each knowledge field for services and the apprehension of situations in which they are not made clear withtout the involvement of different knowledge. To the Social Service, it also means to act in accordance with the Ethical Political Professional Project, with commitments and defenses about the rights of subjects served on the Single Health System.