Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

Poison center nurses usually have at least two years of experience working in an ICU or an Emergency Department, but nurses in other specialties such as pediatric, geriatric, or transplant nursing can successfully make the transition into toxicology. The clinical focus is their passion and they are dedicated to excellent patient care.

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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

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. But when you’re asking someone to make a decision about code status, you’re asking them to make a decision that is in effect right now in the present, right?

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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

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

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. I’m fully present. Scientific American Letter to the Editor: Response to Downar et al.

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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. 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. And it’s been hard to do that.

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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. It’s just an interference with good patient care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. Really talking about, Bob did a talk that I was not present at what meeting Alex? Bob: It’s a little bit like patient care, right? And it was a wonderful talk on mentoring.

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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. I, I think people are a lot more open to that idea of somebody who’s not healthcare affiliated being present. What do you think about that?

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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

You know, we improve the quality of patient care by, by following that patient. We follow a patient from beginning to end to see the level of care that’s being provided. Brett Ringold ( 21:34 ): And home care providers are just one piece of the larger puzzle. We have a tracer, a methodology.

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