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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. nurse practitioners can practice independently.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Yes, you need some protected time for leaders to provide training and structure and oversight and ongoing quality assurance, but the heaviest sort of cost lift sometimes is redesigning the physical space. Because when you’re really converting the team, you’ve got all the people you need working on the unit for the most part.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. It maxes out.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Dr. McDonald acknowledged that recent executive orders have emphasized more competition in medical and legal education accreditation, but reaffirmed ABIM’s commitment to evidence-based practice and health equity.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. With their regular providers? The article we discuss today, also published in JAMA , addresses these two gaps. In their communities?

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Improving nursing home quality. You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? Eric: On improving the quality of nursing home care. To me, I think the Greenhouse folks have proven that you can provide quality care in a home-like environment cost effectively if it’s done right. Jasmine: Yes.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L.,