Healthy Workforce Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

This article is the last in our series of articles focused on reducing patient abuse in healthcare. For example, if patient violence occurs more frequently during a period when a patient is told they have cancer, perhaps you could have a social worker or counselor be present or offer additional support during the period of time after.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 17, 2023

Ask if they would like a safe family member or friend to be present. Be present and attentive. For an in-depth look at trauma-informed nursing care, read “ Trauma-Informed Care in Nursing Practice ,” a CE feature article that’s currently free to read.) .

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the challenges of these conversations and some key strategies to help new hospice nurses. RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: The Hospice Talk: 6 Telltale Signs of Decline and How to Start the Conversation Strategies for Success: 1. It’s not always easy to know what to say or how much to say.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

In this article, we review the definition of ALS, common ALS symptoms, and how you can better help and support your loved one by seeking the assistance of hospice care services. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver. What is ALS?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

And I had no idea what that would look like or what I would do until I happened upon an article by actually a fellow Winnipegger, a man named Jim Brown who was an expert in mood disorders. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered. I’m fully present. I’m not distracted.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This article is sponsored by nVoq. This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Jason Banks, vice president of post-acute business development at nVoq. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

This topic came up with Bernie published an article in New England Journal called Deciding for Patients Who Have Lost Decision-Making Capacity Finding Common Ground in Medical Ethics. You write about this, you’ve written this New England Journal article, you’ve written past articles.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Republished article of The Nurse Path. Check out our other articles and guest bloggers here. Want to write an article? As was to be the case throughout the disaster, communication was a real problem, and the only way we had any idea of the magnitude of what was unfolding, was from the paramedics and public that presented.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But also there’s also, because many more people… Oftentimes, when I’ll be at a meeting, if I’m presenting, I’ll ask for show of hands how many people have had experience with dementia. And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. Why do we need a story?”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This article is sponsored by CHAP. Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice? In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Because what are the unintended consequences of the answer?

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 15, 2022

If you want to read the FULL original article go here. Sometimes patients have multiple past traumas and complex issues which can affect the way they present as they already have a distrust of professional people. The social workers who are so trauma-informed and great advocates of vulnerable victims.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. We could have talked for hours! And I get to play a Bob Dylan song that’s been on my bucket list to learn. You interviewed some geriatricians.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

[laughter] Bob: That’s what happens when junior faculty get invited on the podcast [laughter] Eric: So we’re going to be talking about the article that just came out in JAMA on a priming intervention for goals of care conversations in hospitalized patients with serious illness. We’ll have a link to the article on our notes.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

PRO-TIP : If your patient is in the nursing home, call the family and invite them to be present during your visit! To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive. Were there red flags or warning signs present? This is a great way to get everyone involved. Learn CAHPS Survey language.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

And then to see her, it sort of set up this sense of there’s an expectation that we have for the future that what we’re doing in the present moment is somehow going to continue and that we’re going to have an opportunity to maybe deepen a relationship, to provide some healing, to learn more about each other, to form bonds.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

But if you want to learn more, check out these links: The report by NASEM titled “ The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality ” The website for the Moving Forward We will also link to the JAGS articles co-authored by seven committee members that focus on specific recommendations of the NASEM report when they get published (stay tuned).

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’m a geriatrically trained social worker and it was my grandmother. Here’s a Meals on Wheels handout and here’s a fall prevention handout, and we don’t have a social worker. There have been some fabulous national articles. Greg: Yeah, great question. I got into this 31 years ago.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: If our listeners want to find out more about Alter, should they go to the article you sent us or is there some website for this? ” Or for a social worker, “Where are we going to discharge them to?” But so far, over these three-and-a-half years, it’s predominantly have been Christian denominations.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.” And pointed out some of these inconsistencies with what was actually noted and concluded in some of the articles. Get the hospice referral.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Today we talk with Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint, and Anne Kelly, authors of a JGIM article on the reasons we shouldn’t stop at “no.” Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Should you stop at “no?”

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. I presented this at the big clinical trials meeting in November in San Francisco. And because we can’t resist, we dip into aducanumab and lecanemab at the end. This is Eric Widera. Alex: Minute-and-a-half.

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