Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

More than half (56%) of nearly 330 hospice professionals indicated that their organizations planned to launch palliative care programs for the first time during 2023 in this year’s Hospice News’ Industry Outlook Survey , prepared in collaboration with Homecare Homebase. It also raises the bar on collaboration with geriatric populations.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. Melissa Heiss, vice president of hospice, Jet Health, has been named a 2023 Future Leader by Hospice News. The largest hospital was an hour away.

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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Selena Gilles, DNP, ANP-BC, CNEcl, FNYAM, is a Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Programs at New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Dr. Selena Gilles is an important nursing leader , and we’re proud to profile her as part of the Champions of Nursing Diversity Series 2024.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. On Sep 6, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for their widely anticipated minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Led the American Geriatric Society. We address: What is coaching? AlexSmithMD 1.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Among 2023’s significant nonprofit hospice transactions are Hosparus Health’s acquisition of Baptist Health Deaconess Hospice in June and the affiliation of Capital Caring Health with Chapters Health System in May. Established in 1888 as Visiting Nurse League, the organization rebranded last year as Stillwater Hospice.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

As 2023 approaches, let's reflect on Alzheimer's dementia in terms of where we are and where we may be going in the future. According to the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society," b y the year 2025, an estimated 7.2 We can begin by defining what dementia is in general terms. Visit Frances Shani Parker's Website.

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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Critical Care Transport Nurses Day on February 18 brings attention to the vital work done by nurses in this specialty. Working on a flight or ground vehicle adds complexity to this fast-paced career, and the nursing industry is helping these nurses stay informed and educated throughout their careers.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

About Shauna is a transwoman and nurse, who shares with us practical and thought-out advice, answering common questions about all things LGBTIQ+ and nursing! ACN National Nursing Forum Darwin 2022 Can you tell us about your transition from the military/prisons to nursing? I wasn’t being fulfilled.

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Geriatrics. Alex: We are delighted to welcome back Lee Lindquist, who’s a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics at Northwestern. ” What frustrates me is that so much of our education, either in medical school or nursing school or social work, we’re not taught to handle conflict. Prof Case Manag. December 2020.

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GeriPal

MAY 18, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hot off the press is a brand spanking new updated 2023 AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people.

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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. 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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Bruce Leff, who is also a geriatrician, and professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, and has been studying hospital-at-home since the mid-nineties. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? These organizations got together to bring national experts together and to say, “Why during this unprecedented time of human longevity have evidence-based geriatric health care models not taken root?

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. 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?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. How many patients is my hospice nurse case manager responsible for on any given day?

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Shauna Johnson is a registered nurse at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (LHAAMC) in Annapolis, Maryland, and exemplifies the meaning of resilience. Eventually, Johnson went to nursing school and got her degree in May 2022. Meet Shauna Johnson, a Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (LHAAMC) registered nurse.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

And so I think that’s why it has its moment now even in 2023. They were not touching the patient, and they were more likely to be looking at the nurse or the vital signs tracing than the patient or the family member. Amber Barnato appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. Using some of these tools, so physicians and nurse practitioners and social workers can quickly find these goals of conversations as quickly as you found them through your own algorithms. Randy Curtis was first author of the JAMA paper. Bob: I think that’s one of our many goals.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. Write to your congressperson. Alex: Hope so. Eric: That was during the pandemic.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Eric and I are working on it…maybe by 2023? . 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. Talk to the nurses about it. And B, you have to show the nurse where to put the patch. And yes, this would be a great one for CME.

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