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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens physicians , nurse practitioners (NPs) , physician assistants (PAs) , and dentists travel across the country to work short- and long-term assignments at healthcare facilities that are short-staffed. Bring specialized skills that might be otherwise lacking among permanent staff.

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

GeriPal

And that’s to include making sure we’re using safe prescribing practices. Number three, this specialized prepared environment that promotes safe mobility and cognitive stimulation and delirium prevention, so sort of environmental changes. So there was a lot of difference in who was at these rounds. Any other thoughts?

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

GeriPal

On today’s podcast Areej El-Jawahri, oncologist specializing in blood cancers at MGH, says that sexual health is one of the top if not the top issue among cancer survivors. Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

It’s really special to be here and to be talking about this paper, which was really important to Randy. He really practiced what he preached. And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. Erin: Yeah, I can go first.