GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. I didn’t see very many AIDS patients. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP308 “Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

Recently, Oreofe Odejide, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and colleagues published an analysis of hospice utilization among patients who died with lymphoma, and they made recommendations for improving patient care. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. Family perspectives on end-of-life care at the last place of care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Hartford Foundation with a grant to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the Catholic Health Care Hospitals of America and the American Hospital Association. ” They were able to put together a set of evidence-based practices called the 4Ms Framework for Developing Age-Friendly Care. The post Voices: ??Dr.

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Nurse.com

MAY 11, 2022

They also can specialize in providing care for specific populations, from birth to geriatrics. Their education prepares them not only to make a difference at the bedside but also in systems of care, according to a paper in Nursing Outlook.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

At that time, I formed a relationship with the center director and about 18 months later, she helped me form a plan to become a Registered Nurse and work my way into my position at NCPC as a Specialist in Poison Information (SPI). The clinical focus is their passion and they are dedicated to excellent patient care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So, we use that information to formulate a treatment plan. So, through our lab, we’re looking at characteristics of saliva and the oral microbiome, and if we could potentially use that as a risk indicator for pneumonia development, to kind of help inform our decision making about our recommendations. Eric: Okay. Eric: Great.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie: Thank you so much.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Contessa has done high acuity care, relatively new to the palliative part of the business, but Amedisys has palliative that stretches over both the traditional hospice side of the business, as well as on the Contessa side. How do we create a win-win-win type of scenario within the VBID program or alternate payment models?

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Hospice News

JUNE 9, 2022

Tina Taylor: I’m Tina Taylor, vice president of palliative care at Compassus. I am responsible for our national palliative care programs across the nation. I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. Andrews: That loss leader strategy, and the right level of care at the right time.

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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. Today we talk about suffering in the many forms we encounter in palliative care.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. Welcome back, Rebecca. Rebecca: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The culture, depending on what teams are involved, the complexity of the patient care, whether we sometimes work with teams who want us to be co-facilitating every meeting with patient and family and others who say, “You go have the conversation, let us know how it goes.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. Which is, I think, that’s where we’re struggling, right?

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. Have we figured out, does primary palliative care even work?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. ’ And other patients may be driven by a sense of incredible and unrealistic grandiosity.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

But I think what we’re missing a lot of information on what Joe is talking about is just how much variation there is in that within both non-profit and for-profit, and I think these issues are coming up in non-profit hospices as well, and we just don’t have the data because the information is not reported to anybody.

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Diversity Nursing

MARCH 29, 2021

A diverse workplace is fundamental in providing the best patient care possible. Patients feel more comfortable talking with a Nurse who understands and can relate to them and their issues. Do your job applications ask for age-related information such as date of birth or when a person graduated?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. It’s just an interference with good patient care. We do have the information of both our emergent call center and our electronic methods to access those forms. Do you find that helpful, that section? Karl: Yeah, very much so. Eric: Just too much.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Doulas, When, when, when I look back at my career, the first five years of my nursing was patient care. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like. unique facts and information. What do you think about that? I Speaker 3 ( 16:23 ): Love death. And hospice has evolved in those, what, 50 years.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So Gary, can can you share more about some of the identified results that, that you’ve seen with home care? That, again, you know, a study was conducted by the National Center for Biotechnology information that showed consistently consistent evidence that accreditation programs improve process of care provided by healthcare providers.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And this is one way from a patient-centered standpoint, not the convenience of the clinician, but from the patient-centered standpoint, we can get care to people who otherwise have no access. It’s been a little while since I did direct patient care.

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