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PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIAL WORKER
Professional Summary
Enthusiastic Social Worker with vast medical social work background. Works effectively with patients and families experiencing medical crises, acting as an advocate and guide as they navigate difficult and emotionally-draining situations.
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Work History
Palliative Care Social WorkerAug 2012 - Current
Dean HealthChoctaw , OK
Dean HealthChoctaw , OK
- Perform patient and family bio-psychosocial assessments.
- Attend daily interdisciplinary team meetings to review current cases.
- Assist in facilitating care meetings with patient and families to clarify goals, expectations, and plans of care.
- Coordinate team efforts with health care teams and other staff to ensure smooth discharge plan and clear follow up and continuity post discharge.
- Provide interventions based on need (emotional support, crisis intervention, resource information, discharge planning, legal reporting, ethic consultations).
- Serve as a community liaison with community hospices, home health care, and nursing homes to ensure care coordination.
- Promote education and provide in-services to mulitdisplinary staff members to develop and grow the palliative care program.
- Provide pre and post bereavement support to patients and their families.
- Provide grief education and literature, emotional support, and memorial keepsakes (if interested) to patients and families.
- Advocate and support patient/family autonomy.
- Document and maintain accurate patient records and stats.
Medical Social WorkerJul 2002 - Aug 2012
Satellite HealthcareSanta Rosa , CA
Satellite HealthcareSanta Rosa , CA
- Experienced in many medical service lines (burn and wound, cardiology and thoracic surgery, general surgery, Emergency Department and Trauma.
- Preformed patient and family bio-psychosocial assessments.
- Attended Multidiscplinary team rounds weekly and actively participated in the plan of care and discharge planning process.
- Developed and implemented discharge plans and post-hospital care with patients and families.
- Networked with community agencies and utilized community resourcesto optimize care coordination and continuity of care for patients and their families.
- Provided interventions (crisis intervention, emotional and supportive counseling, resource information/referral) to patients and families faced with life altering adjustments due to illness and disability.
- Attended staff meetings, in-services, and participated in hospital committee meetings to increase knowledge base and skills.
- Documented and maintained patient records and stats.
Financial Social WorkerJun 2003 - Mar 2005
University Of Missouri HealthcareCity , STATE
University Of Missouri HealthcareCity , STATE
- Assisted uninsured and underinsured patients with the application process for Medicaid and financial assistance.
- Worked self-pay census and coordinated daily workload for Family Support Division caseworkers stationed at hospital.
- Debilled self-pay insurance and loaded active Medicaid insurance on patients hospital account.
- Managed a caseload of patients who had been rejected for Medicaid and counseled them on financial assistance options availablethrough the hospital\'s financial program.
- Assisted patients in meeting their Medicaid spenddown accounts by faxing current hospital charges to the Family Support Division caseworkers.
- Assisted patients in obtaining assistance with post discharge medications, as well as provided prescription program applications/information and community resources.
- Provided referrals to community agencies based on patients and their families immediate need (transportation assistance, meals, shelter).
Education
Master of Social Work: Medical Concentration 2002
University of Missouri-ColumbiaCity, State
University of Missouri-ColumbiaCity, State
Bachelor of Social Work: Social Work2001
Missouri State UniversityCity, State
Missouri State UniversityCity, State
Associate of Arts: General1999
Moberly Area Community CollegeCity, State
Moberly Area Community CollegeCity, State
Trainings Attended
- Team Tracer Training (preparing hospital staff for JCAHO visits) 2016 and 2013
- For You Team Training 2015
- Grief Training
- Crew Training 2015
- Jehovah witness In-Service: Bloodless Surgery and Bloodless Medical 2007
- CALM Training: Learned self-defense and deescalating technique 2006
- Strength for caring: Education and Support for Family Cancer Caregivers 2002
- Living with Grief: Loss in Later Life Teleconference 2002
- Mid-Missouri Regional Cancer Conference 2002
- Advocacy in Practice Training: Building Skills for Serving Battered Women 2001
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School Attended
- University of Missouri-Columbia
- Missouri State University
- Moberly Area Community College
Job Titles Held:
- Palliative Care Social Worker
- Medical Social Worker
- Financial Social Worker
Degrees
- Master of Social Work : Medical Concentration 2002
Bachelor of Social Work : Social Work 2001
Associate of Arts : General 1999
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