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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. It begins here; with the way we see our patients as the center of the clinical work we do, indeed the justification for our own existence as doctors in our communities. (I Six years later, about 10 years ago, none of them remained.

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

GeriPal

Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. And so I thought let’s try to figure out actually how many they are, where they are they in academic centers and community centers. Are they community dwelling?

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

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. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

“What we’ve seen to make it really work is you either have to be in the hospital, where we’ve taken over palliative care in the hospital, or you have to be contracted with managed care and get it at some kind of risk, because community-based palliative care is very difficult to make operate right now from a profitable [perspective].”

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. Alex Smith: We have a full house.

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Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

60 min) | $97/mo Register here Business Mastermind (5 pm PT) Master advanced business strategies for your independent clinic, coaching, or consulting business (no medical license required). Ready to Join Our Physician Support Community? We discuss the hidden and taboo reasons physicians die by suicide—and how to prevent it. (60

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

In their communities? And in the community, not just in acute care”, which is just… First day of nursing school, they’ve told us, “You have to remember that a hospitalization is a blip on somebody’s screen. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.”