The Nurse Break
APRIL 20, 2022
Joel was diagnosed with a catastrophic brain injury and after 2 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, he was moved in a comatose state to the same Children’s ward where I had worked as an RN, 10 years previously. Our focus at present is for those affected by chronic stroke – but we recognise that PSE will go on to help so many others.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl. Karl: Thanks for having me.
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GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
But I do think POLST, which I conceptualize as an advance care planning tool, really sits in between those worlds of decisions that are relevant for the present versus the few future. And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? Sean: I did, I did.
GeriPal
JULY 14, 2022
Alex: First is Darrell Owens, who’s Associate Medical Director of Palliative Care at the University of Washington Northwest Campus. Alex: And second is Jim Wright, who is medical director of two long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in Richmond, Virginia: Our Lady of Hope and Westminster Canterbury.
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