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“Don’t talk your business”: Big and small actions to promote Black Women’s engagement with healthcare.

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This week’s blog has been written by Dr Clare McFeely RM, BSc, MSc, PhD, PgCAP (@ClareUoG) & Tobi Abedayo RN, BN(Hons) from Nursing & Healthcare School ( @UofGNurse), School of Medicine, Dentistry & Nursing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. Each issue presents, and is perpetuated, in everyday healthcare encounters.

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Patient Protectors

Chicago Caregiving

Typically, an individual can give a spouse, family member or trusted associate power of attorney (POA) for healthcare, which is recognized under both federal and state statutes. The POA for healthcare comes into force when the patient is unable to make or communicate their preferences for care. Don’t get me wrong here.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Heather Coats is hard at work establishing the evidence base for the power of capturing patient stories in healthcare settings, for those health systems that need a little more convincing. . Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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Care Leavers – a hidden health inequality

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

The shocking reference at the start is from a 30-year longitudinal study published in 2020 which analysed the self-reported health status of care leavers between 1971 and 2011. Non-parental care in childhood and health up to 30 years later: ONS Longitudinal Study 1971-2011. Implications for NHS services. References. Murray, E et al.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Tell me how your illness has impacted your relationships with others, your healthcare team, your family, friends, your beliefs, your values, your preferences. And now my program of research is around testing that person-centered narrative intervention or PCNI because you have to give them an acronym in healthcare.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Elodia Mercier

Minority Nurse

As a recipient of a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) award for her participation in community affairs in 2011, Mercier is an important nursing leader , and we’re proud to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2024. July 23, 1984, to present. Why did you become a nurse?

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Derek Flores

Minority Nurse

The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing. I earned my LPN in 2011, then passed the NCLEX-RN in 2012 after graduating from Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I try to put my patients first by being present to them.

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