Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. I made my way through the ranks as a CNA, then a registered nurse, and then a nurse practitioner and now, I’m in a leadership position.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Eric: Yeah.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And I ran into a nurse in the stairwell eating, because we don’t have any space to eat and she’s eating. And then the infusion nurse comes and she walks a few steps and she talks about what it was like to hear that prognosis. Or the cases where someone actually said, “I never want a feeding tube.”

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision. You’ll have a feeding tube. Yep, for geriatrics? She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. Samir: Yeah.

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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. Kevin: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The nurses say we can’t touch them anywhere. And you may have missed the turnoff between delirium and pain, or your nurses may have. And you want to go over it, the DAG with your colleagues, with the nurses, with the nurse manager; you want everybody to feel comfortable, and let them know what the side effects are.

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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

MAY 12, 2022

Then I started reading about this and a British nurse started preaching palliative care all over India. So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. Came across her, got some training in Oxford, several people joined me. Raj: Thank you.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But the team that I got to work with, physician, nurse, myself, child life, we work so well together that we finish each other’s sentences. But working long enough with my physician, nurse, pharmacy, colleagues, child life, I’m going to get to know them well enough to know where they’re going next. Barbara: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. And a lot of that work and effort has now been shifted onto a family who’s having to be doctors and nurses around the clock. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

She’s a palliative care nurse educator and a writer, and she’s joining us from the great state of Hawaii. Redwing: So I grew up in a pretty intellectual family, but my brother and sister were six and 10 years older than me, and they were always feeding me literature and poetry. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Redwing: Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

On the other hand, when I hear of workarounds to assist patients to die, or even euthanize them, I worry that we’ve gone back to a time when the doctor or nurse knows best – and should be morally permitted to do whatever they think is right, according to their conscience. Do we really trust all doctors and nurses so far?

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