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 Family Families 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

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. Josh: Mm-hmm. Yeah, totally.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And the hard part is, as a provider in palliative care, I actually have very little say of which hospice the individuals we consult to go to. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today.

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

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 72

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144