GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz. Alex: And joining us as she has many times, Anne Kelly is a social worker at the San Francisco VA. If there was a headline for this article, what would it be? Welcome, Liz. Liz: Thanks.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

This article is sponsored by VNS Health. In this Voices article, Josie Aquino, Director, Product Management, VNS Health talks about how VNS Health is using data and analytics to improve end-of-life care. Editor’s Note: This article has been edited for length and clarity.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Just like a broken record, I keep repeating this simple way to get organized in almost every article I write. In the rare instances where your patient won’t allow you to document at the bedside, then you should go to your car and complete your charting. RELATED ARTICLE: Hospice IDG: Top Time Wasters and How to Avoid Them.

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AJN Off the Charts

JANUARY 17, 2023

Some people with PTSD have poor support networks with few, if any, caregivers due to histories of relational stress or social isolation. Even the best care will not guarantee that hospice clinicians like me will no longer see patients like Clarisse now and then.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

If you are interested in signing the position statement “Core Roles and Responsibilities of Physicians in Hospice Care”, click here. Ira: I like the article. I don’t want Ava Kofman’s article to draw all our attention because the issues that she brought out had been brought out before. She’s filming us today.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This article is sponsored by CHAP. In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Why does CHAP have a national medical director, registered nurse and social worker on staff who all specialize in hospice?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. Panelists Kate Courtright and Scott Halpern have no relationships to disclose. Ashwin Kotwal reports receiving a research grant from Humana Inc. and consulting for Papa Health.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

We are going to tackle this question and so many more about coping on this week’s podcast with Dani Chammas , a recurring GeriPal guest, psychiatrist, and palliative care doc at UCSF, and Amanda Moment , a Palliative Care Social Worker at Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center. Dani, welcome back to GeriPal.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. Kellie Flood’s paper in JAMA IM showing that not only ACE units deliver better care, but also help with the hospitals bottom line. Kellie: Yes.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

MARCH 2, 2022

Eventually, the teams started using the feedback as a way to work through tough patient cases and hash out what went wrong ( and right ). To be honest, the insight of the chaplains and social workers was always impressive. Ask yourself these questions: What other resources could you have included in the patient’s care?

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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.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary We are dusting off our crystal balls today with three amazing guests who have all recently published an article on prognosis over the last couple months: Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley. Eric 00:13 And Alex, we have a super special today, three different articles. This is Eric W id era.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So take a listen and if you are interested in learning more, check out these wonderful links: Harvey’s latest book is called, Dignity in Care: The Human Side of Medicine Intensive Caring: Reminding Patients They Matter Michael J. And decided, interesting article, but it raised as many questions as it answered.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

There is a lively debate going on in academic circles about the value of Advance Care Planning (ACP). It’s not a new debate but has gathered steam at least in palliative care circles since Sean Morrisons published a JPM article titled “ Advance Directives/Care Planning: Clear, Simple, and Wrong.”

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