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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

Barbara highlights social workers’ inherent leadership qualities and tasks us to consider whether our own team and organizational structures are allowing for optimal social work engagement and influence. So in preparation for this, I read a couple articles about social work leadership in palliative care.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

So just by the nature of prognosis there, and I think, you know, this, this is really where I think the, the value of an interdisciplinary team, which we do so well in geriatrics and palliative care, is important in thinking about approach to these patients because perspective. Ashwin 23:46 Yeah. Mariah 28:32 It’s definitely not.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

But what I remember from that is at the end of your week long rotation, Michael, everybody gets a chance if they wanted to sit down with Cicely Saunders, social work nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. But, you know, you’ve got social work, you’ve got chaplaincy, and patients are important part of that.