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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
JANUARY 18, 2024
A phenomenon that skilled nursing teams have long appreciated was recently highlighted in a recent article published in JAMA Internal Medicine , researchers Ehrenzeller and Klompas shed light on a critical yet often overlooked aspect of healthcare — oral hygiene and daily toothbrushing. For further inquiries, she can be contacted here.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. Welcome, Karl.
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The Nurse Break
APRIL 20, 2022
Check out our other Patient Perspective articles too. View Patient Perspective Articles. Joel was diagnosed with a catastrophic brain injury and after 2 weeks in ICU on a ventilator, he was moved in a comatose state to the same Children’s ward where I had worked as an RN, 10 years previously. Write For Us.
GeriPal
MAY 26, 2022
This week, we discuss an article by bioethicists Govind Persad and Emily Largent arguing that the NIH guidance for allocation of Paxlovid during conditions of scarcity. It’s been a while since we’ve done a Covid/bioethics podcast (see prior ethics podcasts here , here , here , and here ). Eric: Yeah. Emily: Yeah.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
This is the latest in our series of podcasts on concerns about, and potential of advance care planning. Start by reading this article by Sean Morrison, Diane Meier, and Bob Arnold in JAMA , and this response from Rebecca Sudore, Susan Hickman, and Anne Walling. And I think we really need to be very careful about that.
GeriPal
JULY 14, 2022
Alex: First is Darrell Owens, who’s Associate Medical Director of Palliative Care at the University of Washington Northwest Campus. Alex: And second is Jim Wright, who is medical director of two long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in Richmond, Virginia: Our Lady of Hope and Westminster Canterbury.
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