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Nursing Homes Serving Black Residents Have Greater Hospitalizations, ED Visits

Minority Nurse

Nursing homes with the highest proportion of Black residents have the greatest number of hospitalizations and emergency department visits, according to a new study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing. nursing homes using national datasets from 2019.

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Nursing Work Environments: A Brief Guide

Nurse.com

This includes sterilizing equipment, understanding and assisting with surgical procedures, managing fellow nurses/staff, and conducting post-operative administrative duties. Geriatric A nurse who specializes in geriatric care may be in the hospital setting or in a nursing home.

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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. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago.

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Alzheimer's Dementia Reflections (Video 4:44)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

According to the "Journal of the American Geriatrics Society," b y the year 2025, an estimated 7.2 Frances Shani Parker, Author Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes is available in paperback and e-book editions in America and other countries at online and offline booksellers.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. We’ve mentioned buprenorphine, is that kind of the main thing that we should be thinking about in palliative care clinics and geriatric clinics for people with your use disorder?

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. And these are a little bit more palliative care centric than things we might use with a general population of hospitalized old adults or people in the nursing home or in the outpatient setting because there’s that feeling of life closure and legacy in some of these questions.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011. You did write a blog post about him though, Eric. The post Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. A few Dignity Therapy- Harvey Max Chochinov links. SPONSOR: .