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

Several members of the Hematology Board raised important points to consider when defining community practice, such as access to transfusion and investigational therapies, regional referral dynamics and differences in availability of services such as stem cell transplantation.

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 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

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. And that referral can be done in real time, a soft handoff. I would hope a referral would go to what’s called an ADRC, and it’s called an Aging and Disability Resource Center.

Community 89

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. It’s not that simple.

Illness 131

Illness IT Physicals Patients 131