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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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Nurses Take Top Spot for Honesty and Ethics in Gallup Poll

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Although the 2022 rating is two percentage points lower than the 2021 poll and 10 percentage points lower than the 2020 poll, when nurses were on the front lines at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, nurses still far surpassed the professions — medical doctors (62%) and pharmacists (58%) — ranked second and third, respectively.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

We discussed it with today’s guests Heather Coats, palliative care NP-scientist, and Thor Ringler, poet. Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. What’s in a story?

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Dr. Robin Geiger

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Geiger’s professional focus is on health equity and clinician advocacy, aiming to increase resilience for healthcare providers, improve quality care and create solid support systems through the ACT (Advocacy. Meet Dr. Robin Geiger, Senior Vice President of Clinician Advocacy of Ingenovis Health. Why did you become a nurse?

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6 ways your home care staff can increase caregiver retention

AlayaCare

Many home care agencies are adapting to meet the needs of their caregivers to improve caregiver satisfaction. Based on a recent caregiver employee churn and retention survey conducted by AlayaCare and Home Health Care News (HHCN), caregiver turnover was identified as a top business inefficiency.

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

GeriPal

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? We’ve talked at length on prior podcasts about the failures of aducnumab, Biogen, and the FDA’s decision to approve it. . But wait, there’s a shiny new anti-amyloid drug, lecanemab! (No Wait, what ? . Transcript.

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6 ways your home care staff can increase caregiver retention

AlayaCare

Many home care agencies are adapting to meet the needs of their caregivers to improve caregiver satisfaction. Based on a recent caregiver employee churn and retention survey conducted by AlayaCare and Home Health Care News (HHCN), caregiver turnover was identified as a top business inefficiency. 6 ways to retain home care caregivers.

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