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Mental Health Nursing Fast-Growing Field With Diverse Possibilities

Nurse.com

You can choose from a surprising array of care settings: inpatient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient clinics, emergency departments, schools, long-term care centers, or even correctional facilities. You can care for pediatric patients, students, adults, or geriatric patients. Inpatient hospital units.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

By 2015 that number increased to 4% of US adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. Oh, we should also plug your podcast.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

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. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. What we didn’t have was the payment model to deliver the comprehensive dementia care. 2015, 2016. Long-term care.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care. The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago.

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