Chicago Caregiving

MAY 2, 2023

Celeste Kranick won’t forget the moment when a close relative, for whom she had acted as caregiver, opened up about why he couldn’t stop using drugs. I have to trick my brain to know I won’t die if I come off the substance, because my brain is telling me I need it.” How caregivers can support their loved one through addiction.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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. Because we live in the world as it is, not as it should be, Des has helped develop an app ( link to pilot trial hot off the press !)

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 13, 2024

have a substance use disorder , according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Older adults may be less likely to report substance use issues due to stigma, shame, or lack of awareness,” she says. The majority of that addiction (around 65%) involves alcohol.

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Daily Nurse

MAY 23, 2023

Erin Walczykowski, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at MBI Health Services , LLC in Washington, D.C. Erin Walczykowski, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at MBI Health Services , LLC in Washington, D.C. What follows is our interview, edited for length and clarity.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 28, 2023

The awareness day, one of the World Health Organization’s seven officially mandated global public health days , gives healthcare workers and community organizers a platform to encourage people to get tested for the viral disease and begin needed treatment that can save their lives. It is a major risk factor for liver cancer.”

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Community Home Health Care

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

However, you won’t be surprised to find that in the United States alone, over 40 % of prescription drugs are used by the elderly. Their bodies tend to have increased sensitivity or reactions to medications they were previously comfortably using. Many adults begin to experience significant body changes as they advance in age.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 11, 2022

Susan led the Project on Death in America’s Faculty Scholars program , used her dual training in internal medicine and psychiatry to shine a light on psychosocial aspects of palliative care, and founded the Department of Psychosocial Care at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. . Summary Transcript Summary.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. This 17-bed unit serves inmates from all over the state who are approaching the end of their lives. A few are let out early on compassionate release. Many are there until they die.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 12, 2022

“Nurses have distinctive risk factors associated with the work environment that may increase the probability of developing an SUD.” My response was that these are the ones who are getting help and trying to recover. Substance use disorders do not discriminate.

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Pallimed

JANUARY 30, 2021

1 (member paywall) The column, which is structured as a sort of written debate in which two authors argue a clinical question, describes a case of a 45-year-old man with severe substance use disorder (SUD) recently diagnosed with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer.

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Clipboard Health

AUGUST 16, 2021

Like any medical speciality, psychiatric-mental health nursing has its own specific treatment methods and theories to help treat patients. One of those treatment methods is known as the therapeutic milieu, or the use of a mental health patient’s physical and social environment as part of their therapy.

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Nurse.com

JUNE 6, 2022

In a study , faculty and students in nursing schools and other health sciences at 10 large U.S. Nursing school students, however, had higher levels of depression, anxiety, and stress than nursing faculty and medical students. The programs also help improve healthy lifestyle behaviors in college students, nurses, and clinicians.

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Pallimed

MAY 3, 2021

This commentary will explore how PROP’s flawed policy approach over the last decade has reduced legitimate access to opioid medications and contributed to harms from increases in overdose deaths in the United States (US). They declared that “Guidelines for long-term opioid therapy should not be developed by the field of pain medicine alone.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today? Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Is your brain hurting yet with all these questions? This is Eric Widera. Susan: Happy to be here.

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Nurse.com

MAY 20, 2022

Ten years into practicing nursing, I was experiencing burnout, exhaustion, and apathy. I spent three of those 10 years working as a staff nurse in med-surg and perioperative units and the rest in various positions in home health and hospice. ” Life was finally going to get exciting! .” Kelly Langford, RN.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Men make up approximately 11% of the Australian nursing workforce (Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia, 2019). There are many reasons why men don’t consider nursing, one of which is the massive misconception that nursing is a profession for females only. Aged Care Nursing. Airforce, Navy, Army Nursing.

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Chicago Caregiving

MAY 18, 2024

I used to have egg dreams.” I spent almost every day just going to the doctors for both of us and spending time with him, getting to know my dad,” Franklin says. How access to housing and medical care is making communities healthier. This is the final piece in a 4-part series on older adults and homelessness.

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