Education Individual Nurse Practitioner Utilities 
GeriPal
MAY 5, 2022
Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. How to screen for hearing loss.
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 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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GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). This was the hot topic at AHPM. Katie: Thank you.
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?
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.
GeriPal
APRIL 10, 2025
It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. The one thing that we know is that education alone will not actually deliver behavior change. That is safe.
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. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care.
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