How you can be emotionally present with patients and their family members while also being professionally purposeful. Because you need to be both.
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Attending a death without agenda
In the previous post, I compared the ego to a puppy. When we take the ego along on a supportive
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Attending death as a hospice social worker: keeping the wild puppy still
How you, as a hospice social worker attending death, can keep your ego in check and be a supportive presence to those who just lost a loved one.
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The sad truth about hospice IDTs: Rank always matters
Understanding how and what to communicate during the interdisciplinary team meeting is a good first step to understanding how to
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Hospice social work visit notes made easy
A simple approach to ensuring clear and accurate hospice social work visit notes.
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Hospice social workers: Help patients get more out of your service by listing what you provide
Make it easy for hospice patients and families to learn about what you do in their time with a visual aide they can keep handy in their home. Feel free to customize this list to reflect your strengths and the resources in your service area.
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Hospice patient information spreadsheet – what it is and why it’s important
The first impression in your interview might not create as lasting an impression as we hope or expect. Your new agency will hire you with the hope–and not the certainty–that you will do well. They will look forward with hopeful eyes to seeing how you work out. The first first impression is what got you the job, but the second…
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Who knows what a hospice social worker does?
It is important to have a grasp of what hospice social work is, but you won’t stand out if if you don’t have it when you start your first position. In a recent poll I conducted in a Facebook hospice social work forum, 31 members responded that their agency does not provide adequate training, but only 24 stated that they did.
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Two kinds of hospice social worker success
There are two flavors of Hospice Social Work success: the heroic and the mundane. The heroic successes are when interventions resolve crisis, reunite families, provide patients and families with something that will inspire joy, and counseling that helps patients or family members in measurable ways as they work through their struggles.
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