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Summary:

+ The palliative care social worker is responsible for providing and documenting individualized, person-centered psychosocial assessment, advance care planning, discharge planning and on-going emotional support for individuals with serious illnesses and their families within an acute care hospital setting. As part of the interdisciplinary consultative palliative care team the soc...