Minority Nurse

JANUARY 23, 2025

Keenly focused on establishing positive therapeutic relationships with patients and their families to achieve effective patient education, resource allocation, informed consent, discharge planning, and optimal clinical outcomes. Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including appropriate delegation of tasks to direct reports.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Thaddeus, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Take it over.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But I do think that there’s a tension here, which is that in order for these algorithms to work, you need to feed them a ton of data. And then you think, well, what kind of data are you feeding it? That’s what these algorithms need.

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