GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner?

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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%). Most (49.5%) are in single-specialty group practice or multi-specialty group practice (38%).

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

Community 89

Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Alex 00:06 We are delighted to welcome back Areej El-Jawahri, who’s an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who specializes in blood cancers. These are oncology nurse practitioners. So let’s use the one that I prefer to do, because I know this drug, that’s not how insurance companies work.

Illness 130

Illness IT Physicals Patients 130