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Even the phrase “cultural competence” itself may be an oversimplification, according to Joseph Bleiberg, lead licensed socialworker with the hospice care team at VNS Health. All staff have ongoing training and workshops around cultural awareness and humility,” Bleiberg Hospice News.
That helps relieve some of the work that we put on our nurses and socialworkers. It was very much centered around Massachusetts, but we now have people in other parts of the country attending webinars, seminars and teaching programs. We’ve increased the number of licensed practical nurses.
It began as the Foundation for Hospices in sub-Saharan Africa, a not-for-profit based out of New York, following a professional seminar tour of hospices in Zimbabwe and South Africa by U.S. Global Partners in Care became an affiliate of CHC in 2017, but the program’s roots were planted in 1999. hospice leaders.
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Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts. And the anger was… I was the one delivering the bad news, but the anger was very much directed at a socialworker on our service who’s female. J Palliat Med. 2021;24(11):1598-1602. doi:10.1089/jpm.2021.0240
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