GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. Interprofessional palliative care has a ton of great authors, an inter professional list of amazing authors.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:43 And we have Simone Rinaldi, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and director of nursing for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriat ric medicine. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out! Who will emerge victorious? Vicki 02:10 Thank you.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from? Joe 01:59 Ann Arbor. Alex 02:00 Ann Arbor, where I went to undergrad. Yael, welcome to GeriPal. Yael 02:12 Thank you. I’m excited.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Bragging rights.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Medical communication is tough, although fundamentally at its most basic unit of delivery, it includes really only three steps. First, a clinician’s thoughts must be encoded into words, then transmitted often via sounds, and finally decoded back to thoughts by a patient or family member. Simple, right? Alex: (Singing).

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And so as you think about the conditions that mean that you need care and support in a nursing home, it’s easy to see why many of us feel that palliative care, there are a lot of palliative care needs of nursing home residents just because of the nature of the conditions and reasons that got you there. Alex 02:09 Well, oops.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

She was a member of the committee that wrote the National Academy’s report that we’re going to be talking about today on Improving Nursing Home Quality. We’re going to be talking about improving nursing home quality. I know you’ve been a strong advocate for nursing home patients particularly in California.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Coming off as rote and scripted during a serious illness conversation can have a similar off-putting impact on patients and families. Today we talk with Josh about how to anticipate and avoid the uncanny valley. And talk about times when we’ve fallen into it. . Key message: Listen to the music. All the time. ;). We’ll have links to it.

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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. Do you need to be an addiction medicine trained physician to start such a clinic (no: Sach is not). See Sachs write up about setting up this clinic in JPSM.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. They got training in Vital Talk and ELNEC. They got feedback. So did it matter? Fernanda 01:16 I do have a song request.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. To many this rapid expansion will represent autonomy run amok. Oh my gosh.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. So what do we do about it? Don’t palliative care clinicians already know how to explain things with empathy?

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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. Thanks, Alex.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. 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. This is Eric Widera.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary You may have heard of Area Agencies on Aging, but do you really know what they do or how they do it? What about State Departments of Aging or state master plans for aging? Do you know how these agencies fit in with programs like Meals-on-Wheels or other nutritional support programs? Susan: It is my anthem.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System. Journal of Patient Experience. December 2020. Dealing with conflict in caring for the seriously ill: “it was just out of the question” JAMA 2005. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. Today we discuss a new paper in JAMA that tests a stripped down version of the clinician only facing intervention in a pragmatic randomized trial for older adults with serious illness and those 80+. Is 4% meaningful?

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GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Don Dizon, oncologist specializing in pelvic malignancies at Brown, suggests speaking in plain language, starting by normalizing sexual health issues, to paraphrase, “Many of my patients experience issues with intimacy and sexual health. Is that an issue for you? I’m happy to talk about it at any time.” This is Eric Widera. Ra ra ra ra.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now. Malaz: I love it.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. . But before we dive into that topic, I think Darrell, do you have the song request for Alex? Darrell: Yes. Alex: From Cats?

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