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Nurses with Disabilities: A Skilled Workforce

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Every Path Is Different Sandra Nosek, MSN, RN , has been a nurse for over 30 years with experience in management, staff development, QA wound care, long-term critical acute care, hospice, and skilled nursing facilities. She had a hearing aid in her right ear but woke up with sudden bilateral deafness in 2015. “

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Many links: VA Presents: My Life, My Story: George: A Voice To Be Heard on Apple Podcasts. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. So I allow family members to be present if they want them to. Wonderful work. Every Veteran has a story. Our mission is to help them tell it. Bennett, C.R.,

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

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Heather: Thanks Alex.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

We additionally discussed hospice care as an option for care that might follow the trial of rehabilitation. I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. That’s the problem.

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

GeriPal

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. 2015, 2016.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. GeriPal podcast with Linda Fried on frailty. Julien: It’s a good question.