The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Diminishing Workforce: Primary care clinician shortages worsen access to care The number of primary care clinicians, including physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs), and physician assistants (PAs), decreased from 105.7 For more information, visit www.milbank.org. For more information, visit www.physiciansfoundation.org.

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Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Urgent care centers are often staffed with experienced doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants who are fully equipped to handle a wide range of medical issues. This ensures that you get the best follow-up care and that your primary doctor stays informed. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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ER Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Patient-Centered 52

Barton Associates

MAY 21, 2025

As someone with a nurse practitioner (NP) as a primary care provider, I did not understand the difference between an NP and a doctor. You can’t control change—oftentimes, it’s best to take a step back, observe, and then come out of the transition more informed to respond the best way you can.

Relationship 52

Relationship Healthcare Nurse Practitioner Management 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. nurse practitioners can practice independently.

Nurse Practitioner 52

Nurse Practitioner Family Families Primary Care 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

” And the environment that we worked in, in geriatrics, was more of this sharing information and different groups or calling. I spent so much time trying to talk to others to find out this information. But we do have information on how many of those exist and a few details about how they run as well.

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Hospital Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 100

GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

We need good nurse practitioners. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Here’s our contact information. Eric: Shaida, when you think about the future of hospice and palliative medicine, what are you most worried about? Attendee 13: I am worried about workforce shortage. I’m worried we need amazing clinicians.

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Specialization Illness Healthcare Patient-Centered 93

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

MAY 5, 2022

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. And when you think about that, they’re hearing pieces of the information and their brain is trying to make sense of it. It changes the words. Eric: Great. Meg, what are your three?

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IT Screening Hospital Clinic 102

Mere Mortal MD

MAY 22, 2025

Then there are all the nurses and nursing aides interrupting what little sleep you are trying to get, as well as the doctors, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners breeze into and out of your room so fast your hair stirs in the wind. Until a patient I recently took care of, who did not want to leave.

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Hospital Patients Nurse Practitioner IT 221

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. Expanding ABIM’s engagement with stakeholder communities such as early career physicians, specialty societies and patient-focused organizations.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Alex 00:30 And we are also delighted to welcome Eloise Theisen, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner at Stanford and CEO and co- c ounder of Radical Health Clinician Network, which helps patients use cannabis to treat chronic and age related illness. And I returned to school to become a nurse practitioner.

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Medical IT Patient-Centered Healthcare 99

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. So, I think, right now, we’re talking with some key informants in our own health system to say, what do you think are some barriers that could influence implementation?

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

According to the CDC, the proposed guideline is a clinical tool meant “to improve communication between clinicians and patients, empowering them to make more informed, person-centered decisions related to pain care together.” Clinicians should not dismiss patients on the basis of PDMP information. Recommendation 10.

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Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Patients Individual 75

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? A lot of times the nurse practitioners indicated that the staff were very task focused.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera.

Patient-Centered 109

Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

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.

Telehealth 105

Telehealth Patient-Centered IT Patients 105

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guideline opioid use recommendations “are not intended to be used as an inflexible, rigid standard of care; rather, they are intended to be guideposts to help inform clinician-patient decision-making.” Clinicians should not dismiss patients from treatment on the basis of PDMP information. Recommendation 10. Recommendation 11.

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Alex: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening IT 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. Whether they have a social worker, a nurse, a physician, an NP on the team, they know what to do with that information.

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Screening IT Family Families 120

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To me, that feels hard because I guess my inclination is that I want communication to be fixable, and there’s so much medical information and there’s a lot of reasons for families to feel like they’re struggling to understand. What was it, 5%? Eric: 2% of the time. Alex: 2% of the time. Alex: Yeah, yeah, so common.

Family 144

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 144

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

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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Finance Board-Certified IT Provider 95

GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Alex: And we’re so delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast Marian Grant, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner and marketing consultant, and she is at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Marian: I have been a palliative care nurse practitioner for a number of years. Marian: Thank you.

Illness 101

Illness Patient-Centered IT Nurse Practitioner 101

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Eric: Alex, we have some great guests with us today. Alex: We have some wonderful guests. Holding the microphone for me is Lauren Hunt, who’s a frequent guest on GeriPal. Welcome back to GeriPal, Lauren.

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IT Provider Patients Family 114

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

APRIL 10, 2025

But we felt like we want to give like the primary thing about clinical decision support is to give the provider information they don’t already have. The emergency physician knows it’s not new information. For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. No difference.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

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. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Patients 73

Patients Clinic Patient-Centered Illness 73

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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.

Illness 144

Illness IT Medical Provider 144

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. Alex, is it okay if I ask?

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

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. We’re selling objectivity, information, independence and choice. Take some time to get trust, to get real information. Susan: Yeah, I don’t think the word even surfaced.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

I actually went to planned parenthood of Rhode island, and as a practicing oncologist, sat with folks, some of who had just graduated high school, others who were nurse practitioners, and they started from the very, very basics of pelvic anatomy. These are oncology nurse practitioners. I have as well.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And we were able to work under a waiver of informed consent with making the case that we were promoting, which should be standard of care. And the guy was just so good. He really practiced what he preached.

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I’ll tell you, when I first started out, I was using very advanced techniques when we first started doing it with our nurses and our hospitalists and our social workers. But with our most recent project, we’ve actually trimmed it down. We need to get grandpa more help or grandma more help. Lee: Well, that’s like part two.

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. The content is provided for information purposes only. "Its like taking the batteries out of your thermostat.

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Illness Engineering Medical Nurse Practitioner 54

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

I could walk down the hall and get information. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. And I think also being Asian American, how we care for our loved ones, our older adult relatives is very different than maybe Western cultures. I found it to be an incredibly hard journey.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125

GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back two very special guests who were with us early in the COVID pandemic, and really shown a light on what was happening for the rest of us who could see this giant wave coming, and were just thirsty for information and experiences from those people who were experiencing it early. Darrell: Was that for me?

Nurse Practitioner 136

Nurse Practitioner Patient-Centered Vaccination Emergency Room 136