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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

By strategically utilizing temporary medical professionals, typically through partnering with healthcare staffing agencies such as Barton Associates, healthcare facilities can address immediate staffing needs while also gaining time to develop long-term recruitment and retention strategies for permanent staff.

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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? COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

So I think we’re poised now with the guide model and with the evidence we have about healthcare utilization, impact on caregivers, course of dementia, comorbidity management and all of that. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. I have an obligation to help you.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. Eric: I also wonder, is it just the utilization review standpoint? Nicole: No, I mean, I think it’s really important for students, and our clinicians to understand what you’re recommending to patients, always.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” And I think now we’re at a place where we are taking back the ability to say, “No, actually, this is what a social worker does.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. What I’d really like to see is that when POLST is utilized, it’s utilized correctly.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

I treat patients with acute leukemias and related diseases, so I kind of know some of this from my own clinical practice. The post PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional.