Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 6, 2025

The state’s Department of Labor projects that healthcare practitioners and healthcare support occupations will see greater employment through 2030, particularly in chronic care and family medicine. It offers associate degree and certificate programs leading to careers in nursing and allied health professions.

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Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Professional Education 52

Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

Then there are all the nurses and nursing aides interrupting what little sleep you are trying to get, as well as the doctors, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners breeze into and out of your room so fast your hair stirs in the wind. It is not a skilled nursing facility. It is not a hotel. It is not home.

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Hospital Patients Nurse Practitioner IT 221

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

On today’s podcast we talk with three experts on buprenorphine on why, when, and how to use it in serious illness. Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . Who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and PhD candidate at Boston College.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Eric: And Alex, we’re going to be talking about substance use disorder and serious illness and aging, with three amazing experts. Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Who do we have with us today?

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary How do people react when they hear they have a serious illness? And some people, in addition or instead, engage in deep introspection on how to make meaning or live with or understand this experience of serious illness. Shock, “like a car is rushing straight at me” (says Bill Gardner on our podcast).

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. In robotics, the Uncanny Valley is that strange almost-human-but-not-quite territory in which humanoid appearing robots repulse us with their close yet still “off” appearance. Key message: Listen to the music.

Illness 101

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. For others, this piece, while painful to read, gave voice to what they have been feeling over the last decade – hospice has in some ways lost its way in a quest of promoting profit over care.

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IT Provider Patients Families 114