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End of Life Care Highlights
Karyn Walsh, ACSW, LCSW
Senior Policy Associate,
Palliative and End of Life Care
Educating Social Workers
- The NASW Standards of Practice for Social Workers in Palliative
and End of Life Care were approved by the NASW National
Board of Directors, and are now available on the NASW Web site
at: http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/bereavement/standards/default.asp
- Karyn Walsh, NASW senior policy associate, palliative and end
of life care, and Susan Blacker, MSW, presented the NASW Standards
of Practice for Social Workers in Palliative and End of Life Care to
social workers at the annual clinical conference of the National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization on March 24, 2004 ,
in Las Vegas
- NASW and CancerCare ® developed a free online
Web course for social workers, which was launched in April.
The course is titled Understanding Cancer: The Social Worker's
Role, and is made possible through a grant from the Bristol-Myers
Squibb Company. The course offers 2.0 free CEUs
for social workers. For more information, visit http://www.NASWWebEd.org or http://www.socialworkers.org
Advocacy
- NASW joined the Last Acts Partnership End of Life Coalition to
advocate for end of life care as part of a national agenda, and
to promote the social work practice role in end of life care.
- NASW
participated in the Emergency Medical Services for Children's
Stakeholders Meeting in Washington , D.C. , on March 4 and 5. NASW
is part of a multidisciplinary group of representatives and organizations
that meet the needs of children in emergency medical situations.
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