Clinical Social Work Practice for End-of-Life Care Based on Medical Diagnoses
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| 11 Mar 2010 |
09:00 AM |
3:00 PM |
Friendship Village, Roanoke
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This seminar is designed to provide palliative care, hospice, and medical social workers with the information and skills to work effectively in end-of-life care. Through didactic instruction, practice examples, and interactive discussion, the social worker will gain an increased understanding and clinical awareness for the patient at end-of-life. The seminar will explore the common physical illnesses, ethical and moral concerns, and clinical challenges from diagnosis to death. The seminar is designed for all social work practice categories from entry level to advanced. CE credit is available for all sections of the seminar and a certificate for 4 CE units will be provided at the end of the seminar to all social workers who sign in, complete an evaluation and attend at least 80% of the seminar.VAHPC has been approved as a provider of continuing education for social workers by The Association of Social Work Boards Approved Continuing Education program.
At the end of the seminar participants will be able to:
vIdentify four chronic diseases that commonly result in hospice admissions and understand how their symptoms affect social work practice.
vIdentify behaviors of patients and families as they cope with disease-related challenges
vApply Social Work best-practice for effective interventions
vDevelop strategies to maintain ethical boundaries in professional practice
vExplore the power of Presence: The cornerstone of end-of-life
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