Natalie Ricci

Provide supportive and medical social services to terminally ill patients and their families in residential hospice inpatient units.  Responsible for the development, implementation, and management of psychosocial services provided to patients and their families including counseling, support and education.  Other duties include assisting in utilizing community resources, participating in interdisciplinary team meetings to establish and implement plan of care, works closely with interdisciplinary team providing the social service component, maintaining appropriate documentation in the patient chart and discharge planning and coordination as needed.

Responsibilities included the psychosocial assessment of patients, families, and caregivers; assisting in the development of the social services component of the interdisciplinary team plan of care; assisting patients and families with issues which predispose illness or interfere with obtaining maximum benefits from medical care; and providing intensive counseling services as well as bereavement support to patients/families and community as needed.  Worked in a 16 bed inpatient facility.

Conducted psychosocial assessments as well as worked with an interdisciplinary team of medical professionals to provide emotional support, bereavement counseling and resource referrals to patients with life-limiting illnesses as well as their families.  Worked in the field making home visits as well as in the hospital setting.