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KMID : 0856920150180010009
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Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care
2015 Volume.18 No. 1 p.9 ~ p.15
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Development of e-learning Education Programs for Social Workers in Hospice and Palliative Care
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Sim Hye-Young
Chang Yoon-Jung
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Abstract
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Education is essential for specialists in charge terminal care of cancer patients. In the second 10-year plan to conquercancer under the Cancer Control Act, the Korean government announced a plan to train more hospice and palliativecare (HPC) specialists based on quantitative HPC expansion. Specifically, the government aims to develop e-learningprograms to foster social workers in HPC, following those offered to doctors and nurses. In HPC, social workershave served a vital role in helping patients overcome psychological and social issues. As professionals, they havecarried out their responsibilities and played their part in the field to help HPC to take root and be institutionalizedin Korea. To date, it has been difficult to obtain practical knowledge and skills for social workers due to thelack of systematic training program. Development of an e-learning program for social workers, as proposed inthis study, should strengthen social workers in charge of terminally-ill cancer patients in terms of their identity,expertise, and practical skills in clinical setting and improve their access to education. We also hope the programto be further developed by the government by introducing an education system that offers refresher courses toguarantee social workers’ continued expertise through.
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KEYWORD
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Hospice care, Palliative care, Social work, Distance education
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