Incorporating Social Workers and Nurses to Provide Hospice Patient’s with an Effective Quality of Life
Abstract
Ensuring quality of life for hospice patients requires attention to spiritual, financial, and
psychosocial needs which is largely the focus of hospice care professionals. Providing quality of
life to patients in hospice requires addressing those needs which cannot be accomplished alone but
most effectively as part of an interdisciplinary team. This systematic literature review will explore
the effectiveness of social workers and nurses who work on an interdisciplinary team in regards to
providing quality of life to hospice patients. Through the review of literature this paper will seek
to support the hypothesis that interdisciplinary teams between social workers and nurses can
increase the quality of life for patients who receive hospice services. The purpose of this study is to determine what professionals can work together and are most effective as an interdisciplinary
team to provide quality of life for hospice patients.
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