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2014

Master of Social Work Clinical Research Papers

Hospice

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Emotional Care In The Nursing Home Setting, Trista Pohlman May 2014

Emotional Care In The Nursing Home Setting, Trista Pohlman

Master of Social Work Clinical Research Papers

This research project examines emotional care provided to nursing home residents, prior to them being hospice qualified. Hospice offers a continuum of care that has documented success. In review of the literature, it appears that the nursing home setting provides a set of standards for how needs are responded to that inhibit the type of care hospice is able to provide. By conducting qualitative semi-structured interviews of six employees working in the role of case management in a nursing home setting, an analysis by phenomenological method was done and several themes were found. The following themes emerged: The following themes …


Boundaries, Hospice And Rural Communities: Social Workers’ Perspective, Haylee Erin Spronk May 2014

Boundaries, Hospice And Rural Communities: Social Workers’ Perspective, Haylee Erin Spronk

Master of Social Work Clinical Research Papers

In the past years, the utilization of hospice has increased greatly from previous years and is expected to only increase. This increase is not only found in urban communities but in rural communities as well. Previous research exemplifies that professional boundaries can be different in rural communities than in urban communities. This research set out to explore how rural hospice social workers maintain professional boundaries through eight (n=8) semi-structured interviews. The findings, developed through an open-coding process, included the following themes: the rural community and the grocery store experience, maintaining professional boundaries, and methods to helping professional boundaries …