FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

If opioids are continued for subacute or chronic pain, clinicians should use caution when prescribing opioids at any dosage, should carefully evaluate individual benefits and risks when considering increasing dosage, and should avoid increasing dosage above levels likely to yield diminishing returns in benefits relative to risks to patients.

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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. But we do have the information about referrals to other ancillary providers as part of that multidisciplinary team. Simone, welcome to GeriPal.

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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. So, it’s a building problem.

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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. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It’s now available.

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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. Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy?

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital 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. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

One bump is just the classic pitfalls we often talk about in serious illness communication: being very jargony, very information focused, and just providing information. Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. That’s what she does.

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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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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. For those individuals, how do you think about that? Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. We just unlearn what we have learned.

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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. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: Great, thank you both. To Susan’s point.

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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

I could walk down the hall and get information. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Within two years we converted to clinical program serving in a safety net healthcare system, 50% African-American, 6% dual eligible. I had a supportive spouse.

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