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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Filling Critical Healthcare Staffing Gaps For many healthcare facilities, such as those located in rural areas of the country, the healthcare staffing shortage is already here —but for others, it’s a looming issue that must be planned for. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Most ACE units had the bedside nurse, the physical therapist, a social worker, a case manager, and then differences in a lot of other people, chaplains, nurse practitioners, the primary teams. And then within those interdisciplinary rounds there were differences in who was at rounds. Kellie: Yeah, totally agree.

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

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I’m guessing not.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

Alex 01:11 We’re delighted to welcome Michelle Milic, who is a pulmonary in critical care and palliative care doc and associate professor of clinical medicine at Georgetown. So this is a practical, really basic idea that can be applied to clinical practice. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

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

GeriPal

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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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

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

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