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Online program prompts vaccination among vaccine-hesitant mothers

Medical Xpress

A web-based program that educates mothers about how to find reliable health information and the dangers of babies contracting vaccine-preventable illnesses was effective in persuading vaccine-hesitant mothers to vaccinate themselves and their infants, according to a study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing.

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 For more information, visit www.milbank.org. For more information, visit www.physiciansfoundation.org.

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Seven Things I Learned At My Barton Associates Internship

Barton Associates

However, I learned that this mode wasn’t appropriate for promotional, educational, and conversational content. As someone with a nurse practitioner (NP) as a primary care provider, I did not understand the difference between an NP and a doctor. Thankfully, Barton provided me with a breakdown so I could get up to speed.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Attendee 3: PCHETA, the Palliative Care Hospice and Education Training Act, of course. Attendee 9: Early integration of palliative care in medical education. We need good nurse practitioners. So I worry about burnout for our teams, but I’m hopeful that we can continue to grow and educate each other.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. nurse practitioners can practice independently.

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. I spent so much time trying to talk to others to find out this information. But we do have information on how many of those exist and a few details about how they run as well.

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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. Nadine: In Idaho.