GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex 01:32 For us, answering that question today, we have Joe Greer, who’s a psychologist and associate professor of psychology at MGH and Harvard Medical School. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. So it matters.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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?

Family 144

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 144

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. That services need to be in the building, I think is an important one to talk about because people in nurses nursing homes do have a lot of medical issues. It is intended to be a continuum of care.

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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal. Michelle 01:22 Thanks for having us today. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

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Screening IT Family Families 119

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. What’s up with Medical aid in dying in Canada? Four percent.

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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

As somebody who works in a nursing home, I can barely read a nursing home note anymore because if it’s on electronic medical record, it’s usually a bunch of check boxes, several pages. It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents?

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Alex 00:27 And we’re delighted to welcome S a ch Kale, who is a palliative care doc at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. But my medical training kicked in. Or they might, you know, they might sell their medication, which this population is also prone to. Janet, welcome back to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Alex: Today, we’re delighted to welcome Josh Briscoe, who is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Duke, and a palliative care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. That’s what she does.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Eric: Yeah.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We also have Joe Shega, who is a hospice physician, and he is a Chief Medical Officer and Vice President at VITAS Healthcare. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren. Lauren: Thanks for having me.

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

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 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? The emergency physician knows it’s not new information.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

A friend of GeriPal, and prior guest, Guy Micco commented today that we need an RCT for chaplaincy is like the idea that the humanities need to justify their value in medical training: “It’s like being told to measure the taste of orange juice with a ruler.” It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. Take some time to get trust, to get real information. Susan: Yeah, I don’t think the word even surfaced.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

So many times, family caregivers have to argue with their loved ones about getting more help in the home or moving them to a place that has safety, has close proximity to medical care. But that’s something that we never get taught in medical school, and it’s not a bad thing to negotiate with somebody.

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. These are oncology nurse practitioners. I have as well.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And we were able to work under a waiver of informed consent with making the case that we were promoting, which should be standard of care. And the guy was just so good. He really practiced what he preached.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 83

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. Some of these models I think include more medication management, some of them don’t. I had a supportive spouse.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136