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Some of the Many Benefits of Being an NP

Minority Nurse

Nurse practitioners are accustomed to treating the entire patient rather than solely treating a disease or condition,” says Teresa Cyrus, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, co-owner of Integrative Geriatrics , a practice that provides care to underserved adults and seniors in rural Minnesota. “I I believe it is a more holistic approach to patient care.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. Michele: That was perfect. Alex: That was perfect. Michele: Yep.

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

GeriPal

He spent a long time as hospice medical director and he founded a national model of care that many of our listeners will be familiar with, AIM, which stands for the Advanced Illness Management program, which has influenced CMS policy. I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics. Bill: Thank you.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

On last week’s podcast we interviewed the medical director and the chaplain of the prison’s hospice unit (Hospice in Prison Part 1 ). But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. This week we turn our attention to the inmates.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. And of the 1100 or so nurses who responded, some high proportion had engaged in medical aid in dying.

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