Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “Hello. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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Nurse Practitioner Families Family Primary Care 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Consultations versus telehealth. You get a consult if you get a consult.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. So initially hospice grew as a non-profit, charity based, community based organization. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Alex: We have some wonderful guests. Now it’s 70%.

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IT Provider Patients Families 114

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. And we’ve been consulted multiple times. They’re often angry.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. And at that time I also was the President of the Canadian Psychiatric Association. And like 99.8% So that would be wonderful.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144