GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Like, what does that part look like?

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. Graduated in 2013, did a two-year clinician educator track. There are truly so many incredible learners and professionals out there that are passionate about geriatrics. We don’t have a geriatrician. The medical school has no geriatricians.”

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. Then there’s workforce, so thinking about the education and training of the workforce and how do we enhance that. Eric: There was also a comment about expansion of the role of the CNA in the nursing home in the report. Jasmine: Technology.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unpacking characteristics of spirituality through the lens of persons of colour living with serious illness: The need for nurse-based education to increase understanding of the spiritual dimension in healthcare. I thought I was going to be a professor or educator, decided I didn’t like that. This is Eric Widera.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Practice-PC is an intentionally interprofessional and cutting edge year-long group continuing education course in palliative care for working professionals from all disciplines, in the Bay Area. In addition to that long list, I was also a chaplain educator. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Lexy: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. For those individuals, how do you think about that? Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. We just unlearn what we have learned.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. So let’s just start there.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

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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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. To Susan’s point.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I was also working there at an adult day center for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. ” What frustrates me is that so much of our education, either in medical school or nursing school or social work, we’re not taught to handle conflict. Alaine: Yeah. What would that look like?

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. They can be nurse if you want to. I had a supportive spouse.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Eric: Virtual or in person, for the MD?

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115