Daily Nurse

JUNE 15, 2023

When accessing health-related information, AI-powered chatbots can provide accurate information and direct consumers to relevant health facilities, even in areas with limited resources. Does ChatGPT provide nursing students with a convenient and accessible way to access information and practice clinical skills?

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Hospice News

MAY 25, 2023

Nikki Davis: I’m a nurse practitioner and have been working in geriatrics and palliative care for about 21 years now. Anthony Spano: We are very lucky to have Nikki Davis on stage, so I wanted to just open up and give her the chance to tell us a little bit about herself. Anthony, I think this would probably be a good time.

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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. They didn’t come up in geriatrics very much. And we see that too in geriatrics.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

In addition to being a palliative and hospice RN, she is the Executive Director for Goodwin Hospice , a large non-profit hospice that added end-of-life doula care to their services in collaboration with Jane and John’s doula organization, Present for You. Jane, welcome to the GeriPal podcast. Jane: Thank you for having me. That dawned on me.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. The supporter might offer note-taking or they might come and help with interpreting information or they might help in doing some comparative reasoning exercises. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.

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Daily Nurse

AUGUST 7, 2023

She’s published and presented both workshops and talks about all aspects of telehealth—regionally, nationally, and internationally. Nurses have worked in a variety of settings in telehealth—such as school nursing, critical care, emergency care, specialty care, and geriatrics, Arends says.

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Pallimed

JULY 11, 2022

I did an informal poll on Twitter and less than half of respondents ranked HPM in the top 10. If geriatrics is on there, so are we. We should be including this in our presentations on Hospice and Palliative Medicine 101, or frankly anytime we are asked to speak to outside audiences. If rheumatology is on there, so are we.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could also sort referral sources into categories, such as: Government agencies Other healthcare professionals Senior and geriatric advisors Miscellaneous other sources Are there places outside of the home that you can think of as potential partnership opportunities? One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Senior and geriatric advisors. Here are some pieces of information that you should include: What do you offer. This could lead to community panel discussions, joint presentations, and cross-company in-services. One example could be a local house cleaning business or a pharmacy. Other healthcare professionals.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 31, 2022

Geriatric trauma. My two favourite topics to present on in Trauma are geriatrics and bariatrics. Both populations are increasing in the community and in hospital presentations following trauma. We need to be prepared so that all groups receive the most appropriate care, and have equity of access to trauma care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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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. That’s a lot of information [inaudible 00:35:43], but I share some of that.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice physicians may also have additional certifications such as geriatrics, oncology, or palliative care to demonstrate their knowledge of this field. Be Present Presence and authentic listening create a safe space that allows for honest, open communication and allows all parties to feel understood.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. I can get you guys that information. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. And I worry, I’m not sure that appealing to, we haven’t engaged in complete informed consent if we haven’t done this. Sunita: Oh, yeah.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 24, 2022

You still need all the speciality skills of dealing with different illnesses that might present in one person, plus additional skills in recognising medication interactions, side effects and aspects of polypharmacy that might need attention. Geriatric complications and preventable complications. dr kasia bail.

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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). Others have a more academic focus and enjoy publishing their research and presenting it at national conferences.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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? For more information on Voices, please contact sales@agingmedia.com. How can we promote this?” The post Voices: ??Dr.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Do we have any information on that, do you know? Alex: I saw Des present this work during the NPC, National Palliative Care Research Center Foley retreat this past year in Jackson Hole.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. Gretchen: Absolutely. And I think it came out of this good space.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Our guests today present an important rejoinder to the argument that we should refocus away from advance care planning (ACP). Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. We don’t push any information at them. Sarah: Thank you.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dani and Kery present three steps for interacting with an angry patient: Look within: What is this anger bringing up in me? Keri: It’s all normal, and it’s all data that can better inform our practice. Dani: Yeah, so the way you presented was triggering to them. How is this anger making me feel, think, and react?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.

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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. Tell us more about what you mean,” because they give us beautiful information from that.

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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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Ariel: As we all know, as geriatricians in geriatrics research, people accumulate conditions and accumulate medicines over the years. And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations. ” Ariel: Exactly. Eric: Can I ask?

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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. But one of the things I’m really interested in is people have agency and autonomy, so we can present them with the scenarios of best case, worst case, and they will always choose what’s most important to them.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Well, it’s not just being present, though. But from the path from novice to expert, you run across a couple of bumps in the road. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And that kind of prognostic information can be just as valuable, really, to patients and their families planning as time-based information. But one of the things that I try to teach, because both Juliet and I have done a ton of teaching about this, is that if you follow these steps, that outcome sort of presents itself.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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. I could walk down the hall and get information. We present it to CMMI, to CMS, whoever will listen to us, people on The Hill.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But we had her code, each doctor’s interaction with the Black patient and the white patient, and she coded it with video using detailed information about how many times they touched the patient, how close they got to the patient’s bed, where their body was positioned, and whether they had open or closed body posture.

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Kristine: I like to tease my geriatric friends about age. There’s not that much information on smoking and cognition. 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. Kristine: Can I say age? I like to tease.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Part of my proposal is, again, that we can actually use very similar information. Really because of the structure and the nature of equianalgesic tables, similar information with simpler math, can easily be presented to our colleagues. We present them like these ratios are linear across all doses.

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The Nurse Break

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Check out other must-read articles here Shauna has a Diploma in Nursing from Kangan Batman TAFE and more than 8 years’ experience working within various healthcare fields including Geriatric, Community, Oncology, and currently as a civilian nurse contractor in the Defence environment. Having one that is also a nurse is even more beneficial.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information.

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