GeriPal

APRIL 4, 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

I developed bilateral pneumonia and was hospitalized but thankfully not put on a ventilator. 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.

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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. And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? Welcome back, Rebecca. Who are they? Rebecca: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s just an interference with good patient care. I can on one hand count the patients I’ve cared for who didn’t want mechanical ventilation. Eric: Statutory language in a durable power attorney form. Alex: And that’s just annoying. Eric: Just too much. Alex: It’s too much.

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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

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability. And because there are not many ALS centers in California, lots of those patients are pretty spread out. Alex: Hope so.

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