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Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Barton Associates

adults had a mental illness in 2023, and about half (46%) of them did not get any treatment. A psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (NP), also known as a psych NP or a PMHNP, helps bridge this gap by providing essential mental health services to underserved populations. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

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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.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. The experience will certainly shape the rest of my career.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. She happened to focus on some specific for-profit hospice providers. JAMA Health Forum.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. Like this year, 287 geriatric fellows started in 2023, which really isn’t a big change over the last 10 years. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that. We don’t have a geriatrician.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions. Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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