Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Individual and team analysis. physician assistants, nurse practitioners) to help "de-clutter the inbox" and manage referrals. Furthermore, the findings provide personal and system solutions to guide practitioners and policymakers. Setting: FP practices in Ontario, Canada.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Family Physician Referral 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. There may not be enough time for prevention in primary care, but family physicians need to keep providing it the best we can. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care 52

Barton Associates

JUNE 2, 2025

Traveling across state lines to provide critical healthcare services to patients in need is the bread and butter of any locum tenens provider. That’s a lot of doctors moving from state to state to provide care! The PA licensure compact isn’t enacted in my state. Will it be soon?

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Complication Patients 52

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.

Diabetes 74

Diabetes Management Patient-Centered Family 74

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.

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

We believe the proposed 2022 guideline provides much needed clarification of CDC’s recommendations for both practitioners and regulators. As CDC notes in the 2022 proposed guideline, the 2016 guideline provided twelve recommendations for primary care clinicians who prescribe opioids for chronic pain in outpatient settings.

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Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Patients Individual 75

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 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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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Advanced Practice Providers in the Hematology-Oncology Workforce* Guinevere Z. Lillie, MSN, FNP-C, AOCNP , a public member of the Hematology Board and advanced practice provider (APP) at the Inova Schar Cancer Institute, led a discussion about the integration of APPs in hematology and differences among clinical practices.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

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. We didn’t think that there was something unique to the modality delivery in which palliative care was providing that care. Eric 10:25 Great.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

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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Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

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?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

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

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). Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch:

Illness 102

Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

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.

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IT Provider Patients Family 114

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

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.

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Patient-Centered Illness Healthcare IT 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

To me, I think the Greenhouse folks have proven that you can provide quality care in a home-like environment cost effectively if it’s done right. I think the bottom line is they’re nursing homes. It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents?

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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

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.

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IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Illness 105

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. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

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.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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. But, you know, I’ve talked to a lot of palliative care providers, a lot of people caring for people with serious illness. That’s right.

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Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. That’s not news to us.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. And one of the things was, “You’re telling us stuff we already know”, and also, “I’m going to critique you in that you didn’t provide any solutions.” We don’t have a geriatrician.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Lexy: Yeah.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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.

Illness 101

Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

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. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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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. In social work, it’s called self-determination of the client, meaning at the end of the day, I can provide resources to this older adult or to this caregiver, whoever it may be. Alaine: Yeah. Alaine: Yeah.

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Eric: Okay.

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Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Enzymes provide the body with instructions for what it needs to do, and when people lose energy and water, biochemical systems in the body start to fail, Wood says. 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.

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Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner 54

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

And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. And the treatments are different than what hospice might provide in the home setting. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. I trained at Hopkins.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115