Social Work Blog
APRIL 28, 2022
COVID-19 has disproportionally affected people living in poverty; new immigrants; and those living in healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes), shelters, detention centers, and prisons. Monit Cheung, PhD, LCSW , is the Mary R. The journal Social Work is a benefit of NASW membership.
Hospice Social Work
DECEMBER 30, 2018
My fellow healthcare workers: We can do a better job managing out of hospital do not resuscitate orders. I’ve worked for a dozen hospice directors of nursing, and I’ve never known any to say, “That’s too fine a point to bother the family over.” It matters to nursing homes: They don’t want to have to perform CPR on hospice patients.
Social Work Discoveries
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Join Mim and Lis as we hear a story from a Community Aged Care setting, about a social worker who’s making an initial home visit for an elder man in the community. Sometimes you have to take a deep breath, prepare yourself for whatever’s behind that door, and knock. Safe to say, things don’t go according to plan!
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