Illness Individual Information Nurse Practitioner 
GeriPal
MAY 5, 2022
Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. We talk with Nick and Meg about: Why hearing loss is important not just in geriatrics but also for those caring for seriously ill individuals. How to screen for hearing loss.
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
Should we use Ozempic (if we can find it) in patients with serious illness, which often results in undesirable and profound weight loss? AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) Listen in to learn more! Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today.
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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. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024.
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. 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. Eric: Yeah.
GeriPal
JANUARY 25, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is.
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. The patient refuses to ever talk about the fact that this illness could take their life. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. So it matters.
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