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. Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “Hello. A headband was tied around her white hair.

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Nurse Practitioner Families Family Primary Care 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. His medical diagnoses were stable. He did not need to be in the hospital.

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Hospital Patients Nurse Practitioner IT 221

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. And here, just to clarify, we’re using that term to mean, people diagnosed with cancer, not necessarily people who were treated with curative intent. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Alex: We have some wonderful guests.

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IT Provider Patients Families 114

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. That’s what she does.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73