Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours) allocated to preventive care. "To hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1

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Primary Care Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Given limited critical care resources and an aging population, early interventions to prevent critical illness are vital. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project.

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Illness Electronics Primary Care Nurse Practitioner 130

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

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Nurse Practitioner Family Families Primary Care 52

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care Family 100

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And that made me think more about, they’ve been dealing with these illnesses for many years before we even met them in the ICU, and why aren’t we doing more of this care where they live? In their communities? They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.” Not the patients?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic. Through this experience, I learned how the AAFP advocates for primary care and supports students with grants, scholarships, professional development and empowering us with knowledge and skills.

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Medical Student DO Family Medicine Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. Eric: Yeah, I love just creating the community of people who are passionate about that.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Is that like a palliative care trained doctor, np, a pharmacist, social worker? Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. It usually isn’t for continuing palliative care services.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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Screening IT Family Families 120

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. Juliet: Just I think this notion of communities coming more into our field. You interviewed some geriatricians. It is very active here.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you are interested in learning more and meeting a community of folks interested in hospital-at-home, check out the hospital-at-home user group at hahusersgroup.org or some of these publications: Hospital-Level Care at Home for Acutely Ill Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. We have home-based primary care.

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