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All social workers: STOP EVERYTHING and FEEL GOOD! Social work success bragging party!

We interrupt our normally scheduled program to take a minute to reset with some celebration and remind ourselves that social work is about 2 things:

  • Helping people.
  • Enjoying the satisfaction that can come with helping people.

It’s not about doubting our value or whether it’s possible also to have a life. It’s not about worrying about our health or money or challenges in organizational climates.

In the comments section below, share a success story or two. Let’s enjoy our Self-Care Saturday by embracing the facts: we are courageous, powerful badasses; we’ve devoted our lives to helping in ways that most people can’t; we make the world more inclusive, ethical, and livable and we help people have a voice.

And most importantly, we social workers can support each other as no one else can, because no one else can really understand how it feels to do the work we do.

In the comment section below, share an accomplishment (or 2 or 3) that you are proud of, an example of why you became a social worker. It can be as simple or profound as you want. Invite more peeps to the party by sharing on social media.

I’ll start 🙂

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The key to connection for hospice social workers

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Hospice social work routine visit checklist

5 comments

  1. I’m most proud of working to support clients in what they want, warding off judgments of others. Examples: a patient with terminal cancer and his wife wanted Viagra. Our DON was critical of that desire, but the medical director wrote a prescription. It would have cost hundreds for 5 pills, but I found them a coupon on goodrx.com (thanks to fellow SWs’ advice online) that got them plenty of pills for 60 some dollars. The result was a happier couple!

  2. I helped a patient in a nursing home reunite with a grandson she was obsessively worried about. Staff at the home and the patient’s other children all said that the grandson’s father could not be reasoned with. I call him and he agreed to let another of the kids bring the grandson.

  3. I spend my Friday evenings with a 96 year old man and we watch baseball together. The daughter caretaker is so grateful that finally she can have 2 hours to enjoy a barbecue with friends. She thanks me endlessly. But little does she know there’s nothing else I would rather do on a Friday night than watch baseball with another true Blue Jays fan!!! We have a great time. I’m not a social worker but a palliative social visiting volunteer 🙂

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