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Social Workers & Nurses
Social Workers
The social worker’s tasks may include the following:
- promoting an understanding of, and adjustments to the disease process
- sharing information about available community resources (ex-home care services, counseling and support groups)
- providing information on legal matters (advance healthcare directives, wills, etc.)
- assisting in assigning priorities and making long-range plans (ex-choosing life-support measures, timing of interventions, dying at home, etc)
- giving emotional support to the person with ALS and to family members
Nurses
The nurse generally formulates nursing goals after analyzing assessment data, then drawes up and implements a care plan. Other nursing functions may include the following:
- explaining terminology and techniques
- teaching skills and providing demonstrations
- evaluating skill levels and reviewing procedures
- addressing questions and concerns
- ensuring the comfort of people living with ALS
- encouraging and promoting decision making by people with ALS and their families
- liaising with Home Care or community agencies
- making referrals
- limiting the development of complications
- providing nursing interventions if problems arise
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