Community Individual Nurse Practitioner Specialization 
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
In their communities? And so, for me, I actually think there’s a lot of nurses that would be really excited about this kind of training, and saying, “This is a way I can use my full nursing skillset, my full license. They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.”
GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Like, what does that part look like?
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GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.
GeriPal
AUGUST 31, 2023
You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. I was asking about what was going to be special about the trip or if they were going to do things with their family. It’s all individual.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
Yael Shenkers negative study of primary palliative care for cancer , Randy Curtiss negative study of a Vital Talk-ish intervention , Lieve Van den Blocks negative study of primary PC in nursing homes. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
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.
GeriPal
APRIL 6, 2023
We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. Where are my colleagues?”
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