One Social Work Group’s Process of Conducting an Outcomes-Driven Project

Abstract

Renal social workers across the country are being encouraged by the Council of Nephrology Social Workers to incorporate the outcomes-driven model of nephrology social work into their social work practice with dialysis patients. Initially this model of practice may seem overwhelming, not very useful, or too complicated to some renal social workers who are not used to quantifying their interventions. In spite of initial suspicion and cautious hopes, a small group of social workers at Saint Alphonsus Nephrology Center in Idaho decided to catch the outcomes-driven practice wave. This paper describes the process this group went through in their experience with an outcomes-driven practice model project.