GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

During my training, I didn’t receive much education about radiation oncology, and I’m not entirely sure what some of the terms mean (hypofractionated means fewer sessions, right?). Anish 07:54 I would say sort of echoing what Emily was just referring to is education is key. So I think education is key.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Is this our role? Emmy: Yeah.

Families 102

Families Family IT Diagnosis 102

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Who do we have with us today? Katie: Yep.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And that came down a lot of times to asking the provider whether they felt they met criteria and then also looking to see if they had the financial, like the proper insurance or things like that. But some of these things are addressable potentially through education. Because when you’re on a SNF stay, hospice is also a part A.

Referral 78

Referral Nurse Practitioner Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Remember, there’s an active transport metabolism for gabapentin, if we’re nerding out here. When you get higher doses, it’s just not transported across the gut. Usually, if the patient doesn’t respond to 300 three times a day, insurance will let you give the pregabalin, because they’re generics now.

Management 101

Management IT Patients Families 101

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I can remember two instances of storytelling in training or in education, I guess. Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. Alex 07:35 Can I interject here? His face immediately lit up.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Families 107

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. It could be in housing, it could be a standalone senior center, home delivered meals, nutrition counseling and nutrition education done by registered dieticians. You go back home. Things like that.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89