AJN Off the Charts
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
I made a copy of it and gave it to the ICU social worker to scan for the patient’s electronic chart. In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. Because it was the ICU, there were people to witness the form, plus a social worker to make sure it was scanned into the EMR.
GeriPal
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. Liz: Yeah, palliative care teams is exactly one of those institutional factors.
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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
A recent study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management found that the primary care-led, integrated approach to palliative care espoused by agilon were two-thirds less likely to die in a hospital and on average spent five more days at home near the end of life. We can bring powerful data and care pathways.
GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Asking clinicians whether they had offered the option of withdrawal of life support and comfort-focused care also did not change length of stay, but did increase the discharges to hospice, odds greater than two-fold, whether it was done alone or in combination with the prognostication nudge. Were these two resources already there?
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