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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. ” In 27 states and Washington, D.C.,

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

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And one of the keys that sort of not publishable, because it’s kind of hard to put in a publication is that… I think it was, a nurse practitioner was just a fantastic human being, exemplary, the best you could possibly have. Lyndsay: Yeah.