About Fast Facts for Social Workers
Why This Guide?
Social Workers are core team members in the provision of palliative care services. This resource collection was assembled as a self-assessment and teaching guide for social workers providing palliative care services, working either as part of an interdisciplinary palliative care team or working in any clinical setting that cares for patients with palliative care needs.
What is Included?
The resources have been designed to help staff:
- Assess personal knowledge of state and local institutional rules/laws/policies concerning advance care planning, DNR orders, and related topics in medical ethics.
- Take the Advance Care Planning and End of Life Policy Quiz
- Learn palliative care clinical content from Palliative Care Fast Facts
Other Resources
About Fast Facts & Concepts
Fast Facts and Concepts provide concise, practical, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on key palliative care topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing serious illness. They were started in 2000 by Eric Warm MD as a palliative care teaching tool for generalist clinicians at the University of Cincinnati. They were subsequently adopted as a standard feature of the National End-of-Life Residency Education Project, D Weissman, MD PI, (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). Until 2014, Fast Facts published by the End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC; now closed) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Since 2015, PCNOW has hosted Fast Facts and Concepts as part of their mission to promote palliative care education to generalist clinicians.