Hospice Care Reflection

This process recording will reflect the shared experience with new clients that have been signed on for hospice services. This week I was introduced to two African American male, aged 51 and 82, with an end stage pulmonary disease and cancer. This process recording will discuss the interaction between the social worker, student social worker, and client when determining resources that are available and conducting consents when a person decides on hospice service. The intent of these two sessions was to conduct consents and educate the client and family members about the service New Century provides. In preparation to conducting consent, the social worker informed the student social worker with background information about the client. The …show more content…
The social worker explained to the family that hospice is the first call that is place for medical attention instead of call a rescue squad. She also explained that hospice purpose is to provide palliative, comfort care, and support to the client and their families. Also, in details she discussed how the company works, how a hospice nurse, hospice aid, doctor, and chaplain will come to the home to service his needs. The social worker also explained how we are a team and we will make decisions together about caring for the client. In the session with the 51 year old, when we arrived he was having difficulty breathing and was attempting to control it with a nebulizer. We offered to call his nurse but he ensured us that he was fine after about a few minutes with treatment the coughing subsided. As the social worker and the client talked, the student social worker begin to made observation of the clients home, I could identify that he was a man of Christian faith, he had his gospel music playing softly in the background and scriptures on the wall with personal notes he wrote to myself for encouragement. He apartment was clean but overcrowded due to large furniture in this studio apartment, he discussed with the social worker that he had a rodent problem so he does not keep food in the refrigerator because the rodents will eat it. We ended this …show more content…
With the client who has cancer the social worker was there to explain services provided and offer to assist the caregiver with employment opportunities available. On the contrary with the client with end stage pulmonary disease it seems as though she became a counselor, she was sympathetic toward his feelings about his condition and did not push the issue. I am continuing to learn valuable practices in the social work profession through observing my instructor; although I had a personal relationship with one of the clients on service I did not allow my emotions to overtake the purpose of the