Blood, Sweat, and Tears

MAY 24, 2022

But What broke the monotony was a special nurse with a special personality who I laughed my head off with during every call. She was deeply involved in community outreach projects and truly cared for the community she was a part of. Sister N pointed to the screen with a blood pressure reading of 180/110.

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Referral Community Patients Specialization 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So I make the point, they often say, “Oh, you have this special population,” like pediatrics, where it’s 10% or something. And because, it’s a little kid in a candy store, so many different choices for quote, unquote, “community oncologists,” and perhaps even for academic oncologists.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. How to think about primary and specialized palliative care in this setting. The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. Many also suffer from distressing symptoms like pain. What do we know about.

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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 ). It is a screening? And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Lexy: Great.

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IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. So we looked at hospital referral regions, and we looked at high- and low- intensity regions. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan. Joan: Thanks. I’m delighted to be here.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. And how are you going to know that when you’re just getting random referrals from teaching hospitals, for example? So it developed all this issue around what is a qualifying referral that would allow me to do telehealth prescribing? Joe: Yeah.

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Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73