Defining Core Competencies for the Pediatric Palliative Care Social Worker
An article in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management presents the first published definition of the core competencies of a pediatric palliative care social worker. Danielle Jonas, MSW, LCSW, et al. state that these competencies are needed in order to delineate and optimize the roles and skills of highly-specialized clinicians on the interdisciplinary team.