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Employee Spotlight: Ana

Hospice Promise

We’re ending #NationalSocialWorkMonth on a high note with a spotlight on Ana, MSW, one of our lovely Social Workers! Ana has been a Social Worker for three years now. She obtained her Master’s in Social Work and has been with Hospice Promise since finishing her schooling! Employee Spotlight: Ana.

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

GeriPal

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Barbara: Yay.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

Alex 01:56 And returning guest, Vicki Jackson, who’s a palliative care doc, chief of the Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine at MGH , professor at Harvard Medical School, and co director of the Harvard Medical School center for Palliative Care. But what about the social workers and the chaplains?

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. I think geriatrics very proud of interprofessional care.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). So, you actually just got a first author publication, JAMA, looking at a nursing and social work intervention in heart failure, ILD, and… What was the third again?

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

GeriPal

She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker. So for me, and I think really that’s vetted in a lot of the literature and work too is just universally bringing this approach across the team and really everyone kind of understanding how we show up in a trauma informed way. Alex 00:07 We do.

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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. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She put her back out.