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AbstractIntroduction:Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are integrated services involving doctors, paramedics, nurses, and social workers. This research was carried out to synthesize the evidence concerning social work roles for EMS. The aim of this study was to synthesize literature on the social worker’s role in EMS settings.Methods:The study was a systematic review. Data were collected through selected databases. The researcher used Scopus, Sociology Database, Social Science Database, and Public Health Database related to EMS and social work settings. English papers were selected, without restrictions on publication time, place, and year. The searched keywords were: “Social Work AND Emergency Medical Services AND Ambulance Services,” “Social Worker AND Emergency Medical Systems AND Ambulance Services,” “Social Work AND EMS,” “Social Worker AND EMS,” “Social Work OR Social Worker,” “Social Work Role AND EMS,” Social Worker AND EMS,” “Emergency Medical Services OR/AND Emergency Medical Systems.”Results:The study synthesized the literature about the social work role in pre-EMS, during emergency, and post-EMS. The following themes were highlighted: social workers act as cultural liaisons, effective communicators, emergency workers, and mental health practitioners, collaborating with other disciplines and researchers, for this study. In pre-emergency stages, social workers have roles as educators, communicators, advocates, and awareness builders. During an emergency, social workers act as search and rescue workers, advocates, facilitators, networkers, psychosocial assessors, consultants, counselors, and liaisons for referral activities. And in the post-emergency period, social workers have roles as planners, liaisons, interdisciplinary collaborators, researchers, evaluators, and individuals responsible for follow up.Conclusion:This study synthesizes the roles of social workers in EMS settings. It is the first study on this topic, aiming to produce new knowledge, evidence, and an EMS practice framework for the social worker.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
Emergency Nursing,Emergency Medicine
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