GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

But to come back to just nursing homes, when you think about what a nursing home is and the range of people that they take care of, you can see why it’s so tricky to think about how do we get the right services in there. And so we do have consultants who come in the building. Like, what does that part look like?

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). This was the hot topic at AHPM. Katie: Thank you.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. They don’t have nearly the responsibilities that a certified nursing assistant has when thinking about utilities, groceries, rent, mortgage, all of that stuff on a monthly basis. She has 18,000 or so CNA members in that organization.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think that study was really important, especially I think the message that I give people is you can do something as simple as calling a consultation and improve quality of life months later. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? So that’s great. Absolutely.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77