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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

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Rooted in the power of storytelling and fueled by a desire to improve health equity and foster meaningful connections, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center’s innovative palliative care approach has earned industry-wide acclaim. “We

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Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC

GeriPal

As I argue on the podcast, ELNEC has likely done more to lift the primary palliative care skills of clinicians than any other initiative. He is a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center in Duke and blogs on Substack at Notes from a Family Meeting. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Leave me alone.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

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Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat. All hands go up.

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The Ask-Tell-Ask Approach in Four Steps

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The Importance of Prognostic Conversations In response to research revealing the importance of prognostic conversations and low patient recall of prognostic conversations, Margaret Isaac, MD and Randall Curtis, MD outlined a systematic approach for this patient communication. 2 Patient recall of prognostic conversations can be poor.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

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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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

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. Ann: Thank you.

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Ambivalence in Decision-Making: A Podcast with Joshua Briscoe, Bryanna Moore, Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby & Olubukunola Dwyer

GeriPal

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.