A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. The kickoff to my new employer’s effort to integrate primary care and behavioral health led to many more meetings and eventually to embedding one LCSW into each of our relatively small primary care offices. No counseling is offered.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

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. Not every hospital or every health system is the same physically or financial incentives or which clinical programs exist and patient demographics. What effect does that have on the bottom line?

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

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.

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Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 74

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 one of the parts of that was actually doing physicals for the students and putting them in job placements. I don’t see myself in that world.” Eric: Yeah. Anecdote away.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

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 25, 2024

And I love the podcast that we did because it really highlights… We pride ourselves in palliative care, and focusing on physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering. So, the docs actually wrote orders for tests, medications, consults. I mean, they’re appropriate to enroll, I think. Eric: Yeah. Lyndsay: Yeah.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

social worker, chaplain), everyone should be able to ask a question or two about spiritual concerns, social concerns, or physical concerns. So, for instance, I do a psychosocial screen, I do a physical screen, I do screens in all the other domains. Sometimes we all listen to the initial consult. But how about you!

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Screening IT Family Families 120