Nursing Home Social Services Reference/Career Paths/License

One of a social worker's goals may be to become a licensed socila worker in their state. At this time, licenses for professionals are provide by each state. There is a movement to create 'licensing compacts' to honor the licensing requirements of the various states and allow those licensed professionals to treat residents of their state without further licensing reviews. Nursing home social services work qualifies as social work experience for licensing. To get a license, some number of hours of work experience is required. Each state has different requirements for the number of hours of work experience in order to get a social work license. Most states require some prerequisite for accepting hours of work experience. This prerequisite is usually passing the ACSW MSW test or some registration as a candidate for licensing. Once this is obtained, you may collect supervision hours that are group or individual. Supervision is a chance to demonstrate your competence in various areas of social work. This will be from your experiences working in the nursing home. The assessmetns that you do, the behavioral interventions that you do, the care plansyou design and other skills such as rapport-building will be the needed tools. The person who supervises you will also vouch for your work experience in hours. This takes from one and half to two years to achieve your license. Having the license allows you to make diagnoses, in many states to initiate involuntary commitment processes and other privileges will accrue. This may give you