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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

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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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

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

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Nurses With DNP Degree Are Sorely Needed in Health Care and Education

Nurse.com

They also can specialize in providing care for specific populations, from birth to geriatrics. Their education prepares them not only to make a difference at the bedside but also in systems of care, according to a paper in Nursing Outlook. This 2015 goal wasn’t met, but DNP programs in the U.S.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition.

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Influence of Hospital Culture on Intensity of Care: Liz Dzeng

GeriPal

The culture, depending on what teams are involved, the complexity of the patient care, whether we sometimes work with teams who want us to be co-facilitating every meeting with patient and family and others who say, “You go have the conversation, let us know how it goes.”

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Meet Nicole Reid, Poison Control Nurse

Minority Nurse

This was the average prognosis in 2015 – but no one has an expiration date stamped on them. Poison center nurses usually have at least two years of experience working in an ICU or an Emergency Department, but nurses in other specialties such as pediatric, geriatric, or transplant nursing can successfully make the transition into toxicology.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

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.