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 Oregon also ranks highest in primary care spending for Medicaid (8.2%) and Medicare (6.4%). per 100,000 in 2022.

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens physicians , nurse practitioners (NPs) , physician assistants (PAs) , and dentists travel across the country to work short- and long-term assignments at healthcare facilities that are short-staffed. Maintain optimal staff-to-patient ratios without over- or understaffing.

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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. Nick is an audiologist, researcher, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. So they’re left out.

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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.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Preventive Care Strategies That Save Lives in Mesa, Arizona Our experienced team of physicians and nurse practitioners at Mesa Family Physicians understands the unique health challenges facing our local community. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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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. We’re doing a lot of interactive relationship building. Led the American Geriatric Society. Is that right?

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Summary Transcript CME Summary It is a battle royale on this weeks GeriPal podcast. But watch out!

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

Preventive care works best when you build a relationship over time with a physician who knows you and your health and can make personalized recommendations. Many traditional clinics have a high turnover of doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, so it is difficult to see the same doctor more than once.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

At the Family Medicine office, I observed the close relationships fostered between Dr. Der Simonian and her patients. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to shadow the head nurse practitioner at the Augusta clinic.

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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? And there, you know, so there’s 16,000 nursing homes. And it is Difficult.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Panelists David Bekelman, Lyndsay DeGroot, and Diah Martina have no relationships to disclose. And one of the keys that sort of not publishable, because it’s kind of hard to put in a publication is that… I think it was, a nurse practitioner was just a fantastic human being, exemplary, the best you could possibly have.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. So those types of relationships, clergy, non family members, we talk about, I think cohabitating unmarried couples. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from?

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. ” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Jasmine: It’s an imaginative love story that deconstructs age through an intergenerational friend relationship. There are some nursing homes that also own hospices, so you may not just be selecting the nursing home that you’re going to, but potentially the hospice that you’re going to. Eric: Can I ask why?

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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. Michelle, welcome to GeriPal. Michelle 01:22 Thanks for having us today. DorAnne, welcome to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Versus, Patrice Lars, one of our nurse practitioners, she would use touch all the time, and that’s her. And maybe you’ll say the wrong thing, maybe you’ll do the wrong thing, and that’s part of human relationship as well. You had no relationship. That’s what she does. Eric: Yeah.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 101

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. 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.

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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. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers have no relationships to disclose. Julia 11:02 Yeah.

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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. Lexy: The domains were meaning and purpose, relationships, transcendence and peace, and self-worth and identity, and we developed those.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So, for instance, would it have made a difference if, as a requirement in this study, every single emergency department who was eligible to be in the intervention had to have a relationship with a n inpatient hospice for which discharge was immediately available to an emergency department? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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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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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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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP293 “What’s Up With MAID in Canada” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for CME, you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. And like 99.8%

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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. You interviewed some geriatricians. It is very active here. I don’t know.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

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. I knew them, I developed a relationship with them. It’s somebody different every month, and you never develop that relationship.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

I mean, it happens so much in the business world, and it’s these ideas that we can get to a win-win relationship. So, you don’t want to crimp that relationship. But that’s something that we never get taught in medical school, and it’s not a bad thing to negotiate with somebody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Right.

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Family Families IT Patient-Centered 96

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.

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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.

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