GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
Number four, again, structure and process that promotes early mobilization which may or may not require a formal OT and PT consultation. ” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. What is your clinician to patient ratio?
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. ” In 27 states and Washington, D.C.,
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GeriPal
APRIL 27, 2023
We need good nurse practitioners. We’ll have too many consults, and it’s sort of a double-edged sword that people appreciate us and understand what we’re doing, but we may not have all the trained palliative care chaplains, and palliative care social workers, to really meet those specialized needs.
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. Alex Smith: We have a full house.
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. And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. It changes the words. Eric: Great. Meg, what are your three?
GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
And so we do have consultants who come in the building. 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. And usually it’s simply for a consultation. Like, what does that part look like?
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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