A warm thank you to readers!

I am overwhelmed with gratitude to you for making the HospiceSocialWork.com project worthwhile. My goal is to help hospice social workers become stronger in our positions, feel more confident and have a more positive experience collaborating with our interdisciplinary teams. I want us to accomplish higher level results so that we gain more power in hospice.

There are some major challenges in hospice, and I say the solution is to let social workers take on more hospice leadership roles.

You contribute to this mission when you read and share the articles. And it’s motivating to me when you do. Consistent blogging is not always easy when you’ve got three daughters, a full-time job in hospice and a part-time job in the military. But I love doing it. And I love to see my work being read and shared.

And it’s especially motivating when I read comments on the Facebook page about how an article is dealing directly with an issue that you’ve been working through. And it’s great to receive feedback like this email I received from a long-time hospice/palliative care social worker :

I am writing to thank you for this blog. You are an excellent critical thinker, a highly compassionate and ethical clinician, a very skilled writer. Your writing clearly demonstrates your incredible gift for social work. Your blog is a joy to read. Every single post is valuable. I regularly print out postings to share with my colleagues – not just the social workers but all disciplines.

I am very proud to have you representing our profession.

I am not sure if you get enough positive feedback about your work and your blog – I know I am overdue in sharing my thoughts and appreciation.

Warmly,

Amanda Lou Newton, LCSW

Truthfully, I do get the positive feedback I need to keep going. This website which has been running a little more than a year now gets more than 3,000 visits a month. This tells me someone out there is using it in their mission to help those who most need help.

Keep doing fantastic work for our patients and their families!

With respect and gratitude,

Michael, LCSW