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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

Our board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners develop individualized prevention plans that address your specific health needs and concerns. Our Mesa clinic offers same-week appointments for preventive services, making it convenient for busy families to prioritize their health.

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Healthcare Jobs in Hamden, CT: Opportunities for Every Experience Level

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Entry level roles typically don’t require education beyond a high school diploma or GED. Front office assistant: Also known as medical receptionists, front office assistants handle tasks like greeting patients, answering phones, and scheduling appointments. A graduate degree in nursing is a license requirement.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. He was an otolaryngologist and epidemiology person too, might have an appointment in geriatrics too. He is one of those superstars here. Eric: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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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. Like, I’ve had people who’ve appointed their super as their healthcare decision makers and certainly, I mean, I feel like every, every time we talk about what’s changed in, in day to day life, we reflect on Covid.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. You can tell, are they showing up to oncology appointments, to palliative appointments, are there urine tests as expected?