Volume 6, Number 2, Apr-May-Jun 2009

The Renal Social Worker: an Essential Team Member for Good Renal Care?
Cathy Holman

Renal services do not need renal social workers to keep patients alive.Nephrologists, transplant surgeons and renal nurses can manage that challenge without our involvement. So why are social workers attached to a renal service? Are they just an added extra – an upgrade in the service rather than an essential component of it?

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