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PA Licensure Compact Enacted in 17 States

Barton Associates

While nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians have benefited from interstate medical licensure compacts that make it easy to get licensed in a new state, physician assistants (PAs) haven’t been so lucky—until now. When did the PA compact go into effect?

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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. It used to be a much more complicated model. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? David: Right.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so now for March, 2024, the government still has said they’re planning to expand it for mental illness conditions. And like 99.8%

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The pneumonia could get treated, but I think geriatricians, actually, were well aware of iatrogenic complications of care and quality gaps, even well before the IOM reports of the late 1990s and the like. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. It really doesn’t matter all that much.

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