Hearts above water: Palliative care during a pandemic.
Soc Work Health Care
; 60(1): 93-105, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1069152
ABSTRACT
Social workers and nurses, as members of interprofessional palliative medicine teams, faced unfamiliar challenges and opportunities as they endeavored to provide humanistic care to patients and families during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Typical methods for engaging patients and families in medical decision-making became thwarted by visitation restrictions and patients' dramatic health declines. This paper presents an innovative social work and nursing intervention aimed at enhancing humanistic patient/family care and advanced directive dialogs. Through incorporating a narrative synthesis of the teams' reflective journals from COVID-19, the paper chronicles the intervention implementation, patient/family responses, and team members' personal and professional meaning-making processes.
Keywords
Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Palliative Care
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Social Work
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Trauma Centers
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COVID-19
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Nursing Staff, Hospital
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Soc Work Health Care
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
00981389.2021.1885562
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