The experiences of social workers in rendering palliative care services : suggestions for social workers
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Authors
Nyamndaya, Tendayi
Issue Date
2021-02
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Life-threatening illness , Quality of life , Relief of symptoms , Palliative care , Hospice , Palliative care services , The role of the social worker , Interdisciplinary team , Intervention , Death
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Abstract
Palliative care is one of the crucial services provided by social workers to improve the quality of life of people suffering from life-threatening illnesses. It is an inter-disciplinary medical care giving approach which focuses on relieving symptoms and stress of life threatening illness. To my knowledge there is limited guidelines on how social workers
should intervene in providing palliative care services.
Therefore, this study will the explore experiences of social workers in rendering palliative care services to people faced with life-threatening illnesses. The study will follow a qualitative research approach. Purposive and snowball sampling will be employed to frame the sample of social workers who render palliative care services.
Ethical issues regarding informed consent, confidentiality/anonymity and management of information will be considered and attended to. Data will be collected through semi structured interviews and analysed in terms of Tesch eight steps. The Guba and Lincoln’s model will be employed for data verification (Lincoln and Guba in Schurink,
Fouché and de Vos 2011:419-421).