ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Preliminary data show that 90% of respondents are clinically active with the majority in hospital- or system-owned practice (38%), academic faculty practice (32.9%) and private practice (26.8%). ASH also now allows advanced practitioners to become active members, including the ability to qualify for committee and leadership roles.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The recommendations do not apply to inpatient hospital care, in the emergency department or other observed settings. 50 MME/day, clinicians should pause and carefully reassess evidence of individual benefits and risks. 2022 Guideline at 3. Different benefits and risks apply to reducing opioid dosages. “[B]efore

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Patients ER Patient-Centered Individual 52

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. Lynn 37:39 I was in the hospital. But it really does need some individualizing. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Joe 41:30 Yeah.

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Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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.

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 102

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?

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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. Eric: Great.

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IT Provider Patients Family 113

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital. So that study was focused on patients admitted to the hospital. hospice use). Tammie 02:56 It usually doesn’t work no matter what. Corita 04:32 Yep.

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Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77

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. . Who do we have with us? Ruth: Thank you. Joan: Thanks.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. I see this in the hospital when I’m doing addiction medicine consults. For those individuals, how do you think about that?

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 72

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. Eric: There was also a comment about expansion of the role of the CNA in the nursing home in the report. There’s a lot more CNAs who work in nursing homes, but we need to organize these people in these roles. Tell me about that. Plain and simple.

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. It’s all individual.

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Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 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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Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. I understand there’s a place for we have to justify our existence in a healthcare system that counts cost. In the individual clinical encounter, that’s a lot of what we do. That’s what she does.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The idea was to create a robust community-based infrastructure that could help older adults succeed in their homes and communities, whether they were healthy, how to keep them healthy or they were at imminent risk of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, or nursing home placements. To Susan’s point. And that’s critical.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I was also working there at an adult day center for individuals with Alzheimer’s and other related dementias. I chose, not healthcare management, which a lot of my colleagues have done, but I actually chose negotiation and dispute resolution, which I thought was fun, as well as marketing. Alaine: Yeah. What would that look like?

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. And I was terrified. Why do we need to do more?

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Hospitals are hazardous places for older adults. These hazards include delirium, malnutrition, falls, infections, and hospital associated disability (which about ⅓ of older adults get during a hospital stay). 2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. Annals of Int Med.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115