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Social Workers help with:

  • Adjustment or coping with illness, injury, and disability
  • Death, grief, and loss
  • Lifestyle changes
  • Referral to community agencies
  • Complex discharge needs (care at home, nursing home, or other long-term care options)
  • Concerns about hospitalization
  • Practical support and/ or financial concerns (e.g. equipment needs, information about income support programs)
  • Other individual or family concerns (e.g. dependency issues, caregiver stress, family conflict)

Social Workers help by:

Counselling

  • Providing counselling around coping, managing crisis, adjustment, bereavement, and resources to individuals, couples, families, and/or groups

Advocating

  • Supporting patients and families to access needed services and resources

Collaborating

  • Working with our healthcare teams and the community to provide the best care and discharge planning

Educating

  • Providing education to patients, families, healthcare teams, and community agencies.
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Accessing this Clinic, Program or Service

Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Building

Part of QEII Health Sciences Centre

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-473-2491

Dartmouth General Hospital

fri Jun 6 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
tue Jun 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
wed Jun 11 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
thu Jun 12 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-465-8530

*This office has relocated to room 1512 due to renovations

Eastern Shore Memorial Hospital

fri Jun 6 Unavailable
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 Unavailable
tue Jun 10 Unavailable
wed Jun 11 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
thu Jun 12 Unavailable

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-885-3627

Halifax Infirmary

Part of QEII Health Sciences Centre

fri Jun 6 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
tue Jun 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
wed Jun 11 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
thu Jun 12 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-473-3463

Hants Community Hospital

fri Jun 6 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
tue Jun 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
wed Jun 11 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
thu Jun 12 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-792-2082

Musquodoboit Valley Memorial Hospital

fri Jun 6 Unavailable
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 Unavailable
tue Jun 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
wed Jun 11 Unavailable
thu Jun 12 Unavailable

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-384-4107

Nova Scotia Rehabilitation and Arthritis Centre

Part of QEII Health Sciences Centre

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-473-1367

Twin Oaks Memorial Hospital

fri Jun 6 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
tue Jun 10 Unavailable
wed Jun 11 Unavailable
thu Jun 12 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-889-4103

Victoria Building

Part of QEII Health Sciences Centre

fri Jun 6 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
sat Jun 7 Unavailable
sun Jun 8 Unavailable
mon Jun 9 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
tue Jun 10 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
wed Jun 11 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
thu Jun 12 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Referrals to an NSH social worker can be made by patients, family members, friends, community agencies and/or any member of the inter-disciplinary health care team.

Contact

902-473-5180

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