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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF.

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Physician Support Groups (Sundays) | Peer Support for Doctors

Pamela Wible MD

Whether you’re suffering from PHP entrapment, DEA audits, or the stress of building your own business, we provide support, strategies, and connection to help you live your dreams. We’ve been gathering weekly for nearly ten years to provide a physician lifeline. Must be a Fast Track grad or own an independent practice. (60

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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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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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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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?

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Bragging rights.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions. Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death.