Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

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. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” nurse practitioners can practice independently. “Hello.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice? Listen in to learn more! This is Eric Widera. Welcome back, Alex.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

So that’s one, this patient-centered geriatric assessment and management approach. Most ACE units had the bedside nurse, the physical therapist, a social worker, a case manager, and then differences in a lot of other people, chaplains, nurse practitioners, the primary teams. Kellie: Yeah, totally agree.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. Lynn, what were you doing in Covid 2020?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. So, the training was largely around… It was different for the nurse. Eric: Oh, wow. And I think this is really interesting.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 22 (5):392-400 / PMID: 32740304. Even in the crazy hurried clinic space, the interesting thing, I have had two or three outpatient clinic managers email me that said, “I saw this narrative.” Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

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. We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. I’m the project manager, so my job’s to zoom in. Jasmine: Yes.

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