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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. Absolutely.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

However, lack of physical presence may make this contender struggle to land the emotional support punch that is at the very heart of palliative care. 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.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered. So they have to self-administer. Eric: Yeah.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. They can be nurse if you want to. It has multiple prints and updates.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

I’ve met and helped hundreds of nurse practitioners, PAs, physicians recapture this bliss and I want all of you to feel it too. It’s just a trash can label—not really even a diagnosis, a made-up term that is used as psychological warfare on physicians to control us. This is not like a made-up fantasy in my mind.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis.

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