Background: Palliative care social workers (PCSWs) play a crucial role in optimizing
communication and family-centered care for seriously ill patients. However, PCSWs often …

High-quality palliative care includes effective communication with families, including the
patient. Regardless of family composition, the family is the core social context for a patient's …

ABSTRACT A core tenet of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) is that efficient
and effective teams are critical for the delivery of high-quality, patient-centered care …

PALLIATIVE CARE is variously described as multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and
transdisciplinary. All of those terms underscore a central role for the team, with its constituent …

Palliative care (PC) is perhaps the most inherently interdisciplinary specialty within health
care. Comprehensive PC is delivered by a core team of physicians, nurses, social workers …

Health care providers are in a privileged social position that sanctions their entree into the
intimate lives of families because they deal with illness and impending death. Social …

Person-centered, family-oriented services are integral to palliative and end-of-life care.
Effective communication with providers informs the quality of the dying experience for …

Social workers and nurses, as members of interprofessional palliative medicine teams,
faced unfamiliar challenges and opportunities as they endeavored to provide humanistic …

Social workers play key roles on interdisciplinary hospice teams and in hospitals on
oncology or palliative care teams. Though palliative care settings include both home …

Background: Those who are seriously ill and facing death are often living with physical,
emotional, social, and spiritual suffering. Teamwork is considered to be necessary to …