Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

A 2024 analysis projected that by 2040 a shortage of 58,000 primary care clinicians (including nurse practitioners and physician assistants) will occur. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care 52

Barton Associates

JUNE 2, 2025

While nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians have benefited from interstate medical licensure compacts that make it easy to get licensed in a new state, physician assistants (PAs) haven’t been so lucky—until now.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Complication IT 52

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.

IT 102

IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Today we are delighted to welcome from the East Coast, we have Nadine Carter, who’s a nurse practitioner who spent seven years in outpatient endocrinology and is now a hospice and palliative care fellow at Dartmouth Health and instructor at Dartmouth. Eric: And Alex, we’ve got a full house today. Nadine: In Idaho.

Diabetes 74

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 74

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

My wife, who’s a PhD nurse practitioner, who actually was a founding dean of the nursing school at GW, and I were thinking about, well, we’re not sure we want to work for somebody else all the time. Led the American Geriatric Society. Now, wait, you’re mostly doing coaching now? Is that right? It’s funny.

Board-Certified 110

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral 110

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

CDC emphasizes that while some of the initiatives had positive results for some patients, guideline “recommendations are voluntary and intended to be flexible in support, not supplant, individualized, patient-centered care.” 50 MME/day, clinicians should pause and carefully reassess evidence of individual benefits and risks.

Patient-Centered 75

Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Patients Individual 75

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

While some specialty societies for other credentialed healthcare providers offer their own board certification exam in a given specialty, physician assistants and nurse practitioners do not always have a robust assessment equivalent to the one that board certified physicians take.

Board-Certified 40

Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

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.

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

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.

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered ER 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. But it really does need some individualizing. Joe, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Joe 01:42 Thanks so much for having me. Joe 41:30 Yeah.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And so, for me, I actually think there’s a lot of nurses that would be really excited about this kind of training, and saying, “This is a way I can use my full nursing skillset, my full license. So, I love how tailored and individualized it was, and that’s what this process evaluation is really showing us, so far.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

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?

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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. And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? Why not use the older term unbefriended?

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. I think that’s the part that’s still the fundamental foundation of hospice, individualized care plans focusing on patients, families, wants, needs and goals. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

IT 114

IT Provider Patients Family 114

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.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

Patient-Centered 115

Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. And that’s what gets me excited for our future, is being able to interact with those individuals and attract them early and keep them hooked, I think is one of Jerry and my story. We don’t have a geriatrician.

Board-Certified 91

Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

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.

Patients 73

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. You interviewed some geriatricians. It’s impressive. Here’s the thing that I find limiting about it.

Illness 128

Illness IT Diagnose Medical 128

GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera.

IT 105

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. Tell me about that. But at the same time, when you ask people to do more, you have to pay them more too. So it’s give and take.

Finance 95

Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care. It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. Lexy: Yeah.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

So we from the very beginning had an option of clinician administered medical assistants in dying or lethal drugs administered by either a nurse practitioner or a physician or self-administered. So it started off for individuals with a terminal illness. And like 99.8% of the cases in Canada have been clinician administered.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. Do we know these individual things really work in big randomized control? Basically vital talk. No difference. Corita 26:15 Yeah.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. In the individual clinical encounter, that’s a lot of what we do. That’s what she does. If I do it, it’s just weird because I feel awkward doing it. So I don’t use a lot of touch.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

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: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

Community 89

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. How would you think about each individual of those three steps? Tell me, Alaine, how’d you get interested in this? Alaine: Yeah. Imagine you’re trying to convince Alex to give up the car keys. Lee: Yeah.

Family 96

Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room. However, we do not guarantee individual replies due to the high volume of messages. "Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat.

Illness 54

Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner 54

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Eric: … you’re getting paid for individual encounters, not going to people’s homes, not being paid for all of the additional support that’s needed for comprehensive cancer care. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. Malaz: Correct. Malaz: Social worker, anybody.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

By partnering with our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners in Mesa, Arizona, you gain access to evidence-based preventive care services that can help you maintain optimal health, detect problems early, and prevent complications from existing conditions.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Eric: Virtual or in person, for the MD?

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115