GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Definitely putting a little bit more prep time in.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy!

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.

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AJN Off the Charts

AUGUST 4, 2022

The researchers’ findings were based on responses from 46,318 women ages 46 to 68 years who were enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study and were free of major chronic diseases at this cohort study’s baseline in 1988. The post Rotating Night Shifts Erode Long-Term Health of Nurses appeared first on Off the Charts.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” Oh, I’ll definitely be going back.

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Imagine you receive a telephone call from the nursing home about the following resident.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

APRIL 28, 2022

April 2021 – CMS targeted the efforts of the Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency to help nursing homes strengthen their infection control systems, increase resident and staff COVID-19 vaccination rates, and ensure quality and safety.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. This isn’t going to be easy, and it most definitely isn’t a 9-5 job, but it is so worth it if you find a home with the right company — the right ‘work family.’

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Ann: I definitely do. Sarguni: Yeah, definitely. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? But before we go into that subject, Ann I think you have a song request for Alex.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I think the general definition that’s given is it’s the ability to bounce back from some kind of adversity. The example I give is, if you’ve ever walked into a nursing home, or where there’s an activity happening for a group of people with dementia, that is a little depressing to me.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. Eric: And how is assisted living community different than a nursing home? One is they’re not licensed as a nursing home, and they’re not federally regulated. Biggest differences, not licensed as a nursing home, don’t have to have nurses.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. The company cited swelling construction costs, rising inflation rates and the staffing shortage.

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Nurse.com

MAY 18, 2022

When a nurse licensee challenges a board of nursing discipline, the licensee often bases the case on a violation of his or her due process rights. In the following case, an LPN fought a board of nursing order revoking her license. Expired Medications Discovered by ED Nurse. Jenny, an LPN, worked for a nursing home.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

Some of it was definitely just trying to find new ideas in a way to be able to get into facilities and doctors’ offices. Hospitals and nursing homes don’t want to get dinged for readmissions. Typically that hovered around 80 to 90 days, and we are seeing the trend moving in that direction. It was still a very virtual world.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kevin’s study looks at a period of time in the COVID pandemic when a large multistate nursing home provider created a “nonessential medication on hold” (NEMOH) policy in order to conserve critical nursing resources and PPE, and to limit exposure risk for residents by reducing unnecessary contact. nursing homes.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Cremation is definitely in the mainstream these days as a method of body disposal. Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

I believe non-relatives who serve as committed caregivers during illness should also be included in the kinship care definition and treated as such. He was admitted immediately and later placed with other AIDS patients in an isolated section of a nursing home. Based on his appearance and actions, I suspected Jake had AIDS.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

OCTOBER 27, 2022

First, let’s start with some definitions. Increasingly diverse demographics among nursing home residents require nursing homes to provide culturally competent care. Are your teams prepared to understand the associated updates and impacts on care decision-making for the entire interdisciplinary team (IDT)?

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Nurse.com

JUNE 1, 2023

Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. Diane: Huge.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

That’s something that I figured we could definitely go after is using those negotiation skills and then moving them over towards the healthcare setting. Eric: Is there a formal definition for a negotiation? Lee: Well, you’re definitely not joining the Dark Side. ” No one wants to go to a nursing home.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 28, 2022

Based on this discussion, we’ve developed a free tip sheet to help your home care organizations and healthcare providers work through improving your care plans. Let’s dive into how to make and improve a health care plan and how it can improve your home care agency, nursing home, or business.

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AlayaCare

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on this discussion, we’ve developed a to help your home care organizations and healthcare providers work through improving your care plans. Let’s dive into how to make and improve a health care plan and how it can improve your home care agency, nursing home, or business.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So I think when you start combining these trials and you’re faced with an older adult that the option would be to now put in a PICC line and send them to a nursing home and then you can have a really sit down with the patient through shared decision making decide we stop at seven days. Lona: Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home. We definitely have people who were dwindling and really looking like they were coming to the end of life, and when they start getting these supportive services, they pop back up. And so the definition of family was broad.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursing homes and assisted living facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. Melissa: It’s definitely true that that’s the incentive under nonprofit and for-profit.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Second, as we discussed in last week’s podcast , older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, were far more likely to die than younger individuals. I was very excited about the opportunity, and very excited about everything that’s going on at AGS, so when she asked me, I said, “Yes, definitely.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. Alex: Nursing homes. We are actually the integrator. We deepen ourselves into the fabric of care and we make healthcare work for people who are seriously ill. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Eric: BlackRock.

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Nurse.com

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Do I need to mention non-nursing work experience? Non-nursing work experience highlights the versatility of your skill set, so you should definitely include this on your resume. For example, if you organized a blood drive at your school or read to residents of a nursing home, expand on the details of these occasions.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

Lauren: Yeah, I think I can definitely see Joe’s point of view. Yes, my hair is definitely on fire. The for-profits stepped up and they have been serving people in nursing homes, including with dementia who deserve our care, and the nonprofits haven’t. Eric: Great. Lauren, what do you think about you?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. I saw years ago in Oregon, a POLST form that had been on file in a nursing home resident’s chart for seven years. And it said comfort measures. So for seven years, that person had been treated in accordance with that plan of care.

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GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

Natural immunity definitely works. Let’s focus on outpatient management, nursing home management. Monica: They definitely are, and they have multiple-. So far, because it’s a combination of two monoclonal antibodies, it definitely works against Omicron. Alex: Yes, it’s definitely my thing.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. I definitely don’t want to do that today. Definitely doesn’t correlate with need.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 20, 2022

So I think when you start combining these trials and you’re faced with an older adult that the option would be to now put in a PICC line and send them to a nursing home and then you can have a really sit down with the patient through shared decision making decide we stop at seven days. Lona: Absolutely.

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Nurse.com

JULY 20, 2022

What Is Patient Abandonment in Nursing? The American Nurses Association’s (ANA) definition of patient abandonment is “a unilateral severance of the established nurse-patient relationship without giving reasonable notice to the appropriate person so that arrangements can be made for the continuation of nursing care by others…”.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: Who manages, once a day, methadone once they’re admitted to a nursing home? Katie: Well, I think you’re assuming that they’re accepting them to nursing homes, which is usually the first stop sign. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it. Katie: Yep. Jessie: Yep.

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