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New app shares physician’s rounding queue with families and nurses

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: • A pediatric hospitalist helped develop software that tells families and nurses where their patient is in that day’s rounding queue. With the app, family members can have the hospitalist call them when the team arrives for rounds. • The use of the rounding app has tripled the number of nurses who attend rounds.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. I started on YouTube specifically because, Julie probably knows this, but YouTube is actually the second-largest search engine after Google.

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