Comfort Home Care

MAY 15, 2022

Geraldine (Gerri) Flowers assumes the role as Chief Executive Officer of Comfort Home Care, effective May 9, 2022. She has played a significant role, spanning patient care, regulatory compliance, management, and most notably COVID prevention and treatment implementation and coordination strategies. ROCKVILLE, Md.

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

Eric: Well, before we talk about dysphagia and revisit it, which is also interesting, because this is our first podcast, I think on dysphagia, but we’ve talked about it before on GeriPal, in our blog. I think someone has a song request for Alex. Raele: I do. I have one. Change by Blind Melon. Eric: Why did you choose this? Eric: Okay.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 15, 2024

Modern medicine means longer life expectancies, resulting in increased hospitalization utilization and geriatric care. This will negatively impact safe and quality patient care and nursing morale. While nurses continue to retire from or leave the bedside, the demand for quality healthcare only increases.

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Caregiver Support Services

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Ranging from hands-on patient care to research and administration roles, there’s something out there for anyone interested. These dedicated individuals specialize in diagnosing illnesses, prescribing treatments and providing ongoing patient care, from pediatrics , cardiology, to dermatology specialization.

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Nurse.com

MAY 11, 2022

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. Learn more about Baylor University’s Online DNP Programs.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

They positively impact their patients and patient outcomes and also meet the needs of those living in rural communities. Role Family Nurse Practitioner A family nurse practitioner (FNP) cares for patients of all ages, from newborn to geriatric.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

At nursing school, Johnson fell in love with working with geriatric patients; now, she works in Luminis Health’s Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit. I collaborate with a team of medical professionals to ensure every patient receives the care they deserve. During her last semester, she gave birth and got COVID.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 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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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Alex 00:48 And we’re delighted to welcome back Josh Briscoe, who’s a palliative care doc at the Durham VA Medical center in Duke and blogs at Notes from a Family Meeting. Alex 00:59 And finally, Theo Slomoff, who is a palliative care fellow at UCSF and is joining us as a guest host. Thaddeus 00:46 Thank you.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

“It’s because we demonstrate our commitment to quality and equitable care and ensuring care is provided in all communities.”. In states that have moved to full practice authority, “we’ve seen improved patient care outcomes. FPA, COVID and Care. We’ve seen an increase in the workforce.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

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. The clinical focus is their passion and they are dedicated to excellent patient care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It was titled like, had the word palliative care in the title, I think. Alex 21:31 Blog post, if we’re talking about the same study, was like, fast food palliative care, in and out palliative care, something like that. Eric 21:38 Palliative care doesn’t work. This is Eric Widera. We’re what?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It helped me to understand and justify my interest in (this won’t surprise you) EVERYTHING related to geriatrics or palliative care. Bob: It’s a little bit like patient care, right? We’ll start a thread to this blog post. Also hat tip to Matthew Growdon for recommending the book. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

APRIL 26, 2024

** Claim your CME credit for EP308 “Palliative Care Nursing: Podcast with Betty Ferrell about ELNEC” [link] Note : If you have not already registered for the annual CME subscription ( cost is $100 for a year’s worth of CME podcasts ), you can register here [link] For more info on the CME credit, go to [link] Disclosures: Moderators Drs.

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GeriPal

APRIL 11, 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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Minority Nurse

JANUARY 17, 2024

She’s also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN), where she serves as Co-Director of the HIGN Scholars Program, an Affiliate Associate Professor at Howard University College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences, and a Volunteer Associate Professor for the State University of Haiti.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I mean, and to this, this is to Alex’s point, of all of our blog posts, all of our purchasing behavior, you know what we’ve liked, part of that is really constructed by social media as well. 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.

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