Health and social care professionals' competencies have traditionally been separated because of the different aims of the two professions. These competencies need to be integrated, to make sure that seamless services are provided that meet the often complex needs of patients and clients in a coordinated and timely way. The aim of this integrative review was to identify, describe and synthetise previous studies on integrated competencies in health and social care. Electronic literature searches were carried out on the CINAHL, ProQuest, PsycInfo, PubMed, Scopus and SocIndex databases for peer-reviewed scientific papers that were published in English between 1 January 2007 and 31 December 2019. This identified 3,231 papers, after duplicates were removed, and 18 focused on the integration of social workers' competencies with health care. Other types of integration were not found. The value added by integrating social workers' competencies with health care focused on engaging working orientation, improving communication with family members, increasing understanding of service resources and mastering successful discharge procedures so that they met comprehensive, complex health and well-being needs. Social workers added value when they worked with multi-professional teams, but there were challenges to integrating competencies and these were related to professional collaboration and fragmented leadership. In future, more attention needs to be paid to diversifying and optimising the integration of professional health and social care competencies that meet clients' and patients' care and service needs. It is also vital to focus on developing the professional and leadership strategies that are needed to combine those competencies.

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社会工作者的能力对医疗保健的价值：综合审查

由于这两个职业的目标不同，卫生和社会护理专业人员的能力传统上是分开的。需要整合这些能力，以确保提供无缝服务，以协调和及时的方式满足患者和客户通常复杂的需求。该综合评价的目的是识别、描述和综合以前关于健康和社会护理综合能力的研究。在 CINAHL、ProQuest、PsycInfo、PubMed、Scopus 和 SocIndex 数据库中对 2007 年 1 月 1 日至 2019 年 12 月 31 日期间以英语发表的经同行评审的科学论文进行了电子文献搜索。在删除重复项后，共确定了 3,231 篇论文，和 18 个侧重于将社会工作者的能力与医疗保健相结合。未找到其他类型的集成。将社会工作者的能力与医疗保健相结合的附加值侧重于参与工作导向、改善与家庭成员的沟通、增加对服务资源的了解和掌握成功的出院程序，从而满足全面、复杂的健康和福祉需求。社会工作者在与多专业团队合作时增加了价值，但在整合能力方面存在挑战，这些挑战与专业协作和分散的领导力有关。未来，需要更加关注满足客户和患者的护理和服务需求的专业健康和社会护理能力的多样化和优化整合。