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

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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. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

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

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Substance use disorder is one of those complex issues in which clinical practice is changing rapidly. 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. Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

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So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy.

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