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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?
ChatGPT has many questioning its role in healthcare, specifically its use in nursing education. For example, in geriatricnursing care, AI is used for monitoring patients with dementia, detecting falls, facilitating communication, and managing medications, enhancing the overall quality and efficiency of care for older adults.
Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatricnurse practitioner at NYU. Thanks for having me.
Accurate documentation is important in elder care. Given these challenges, its important to understand the difficulties involved in documentation. Lets explore the role of medical scribes in enhancing elder care and how partnering with a scribe agency can benefit geriatric practices.
Certainly SOME of those avoided hospitalizations, CPR, and ICU stays were due to documentation of those orders in the POLST. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes. He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. Welcome, Karl.
Missouri set a very high bar, explicit written documentation that applies to this specific circumstance, which the Cruzan’s eventually cleared. But legislation can change, clinical practice can change, but I think what we’ll talk about today is how we’re now opening the door to conversations rather than legal rules and documents.
end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.
This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.
Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.
Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Who do we have with us today? Welcome to the GeriPal podcast Susan.
While the average person probably thinks that nurses working via telehealth is something new that came about during COVID, that couldn’t be further from the truth. “I Georgia Reiner, MS CPHRM, a Risk Analyst at the Nurses Service Organization (NSO), agrees that telehealth has been around for a while. The answer is yes and no.
Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. And it has fairly well documented biases.
That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Physical therapy had walked with him that day and noted improvement compared to previous walks, suggesting that he should be discharged to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation on discharge.
valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. J Am Geriatr Soc. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications.
Summary Transcript CME Summary In todays podcast we were delighted to be joined by the presenters of the top scientific abstracts for the Annual Assembly of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine ( AAHPM ) and the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Nurses Association ( HPNA ). I’m a PhD candidate at Yale School of Nursing.
We also talk with Emily Largent, a bioethicist and former ICU nurse, who argues in a Hastings Center Report for an expanded vision of patient consent. I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. That’s a huge amount of news all at once.
Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Heather.
What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. I’m just stunned even writing that! And also leveraging that idea that we all have these biases. Kate: These are very sick patients.
There was a patient who was living in Seattle at a skilled nursing facility. I just, I started thinking about our CNA from West Africa who was very devout Christian, and started imagining that person trying to instruct and work with the skilled nursing facility staff to stop all food and drink. Well, how can I be.
Abhilash Desai, MD , geriatric psychiatrist, adjunct associate professor in the department of psychiatry at University of Washington School of Medicine, and poet! Alex: And we have Ab Desai, who’s a geriatric psychiatrist in Idaho. Alex: Could we touch on nursing homes too? Anne, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.
As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Bennett, C.R., Schilling, L., Doorenbos, A. That makes sense.
Cedars-Sinai’s commitment to excellence in nursing is again being celebrated because the organization has earned its sixth-consecutive Magnet designation, widely considered the highest honor in nursing. Klinenberg, MD, and Lynn Klinenberg Linkin, Chair in Nursing, in honor of Linda Burnes Bolton.
Alex 00:15 We are delighted to welcome back Louise Aronson, who’s a geriatrician and author in the UCSF division of Geriatrics. There’s more to it that you should be documenting than DNR DNI, which seems like. Eric 00:13 And, Alex, who do we have with us today? Her most recent book is Elderhood. We need more. Bill 16:01 To.
And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision. She wasn’t communicating, she couldn’t remember anybody’s name, nothing. And she said, we didn’t want this. Joel: And they kept her comfortable.
Today we talk with Fayron Epps and Karen Moss, two nurse researchers who are focused on improving the experience of Black/African American caregivers of persons living with dementia. Why are nurse researchers in particular critical to the study of these issues? You both are nurse leaders who are doing this unique work out there.
In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.
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 the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.
The Beers Criteria is one of the most frequently cited reference tools in geriatrics, detailing potentially inappropriate medications to prescribe to older people. We’re delighted to welcome Mike Steinman, who’s a geriatrician professor of medicine at UCSF in the division of geriatrics, prior guest on this podcast.
Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and a T-32 research fellow in UCSF’s Division of Geriatrics. He’s a Geriatrician Palliative Care Clinician Researcher, also in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. The head nurse spoke up. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?
We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. Could it be the bedside nurse? It meets in-person, once a month, over nine sessions. For inquiries or to apply, please contact gayle.kojimoto@ucsf.edu.
I am an acute care and adult and geriatric certified nurse practitioner. Over 100,000 who were given instructions to enter into the skilled nursing environment didn’t adhere to it. Tina Taylor: I’m Tina Taylor, vice president of palliative care at Compassus. I believe it’s like 1 in 10 for hospice.
Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Hillary: And then I also see us measuring advance care planning documents on file in the health system so that that’s not where I want us to be. We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF.
You’re a senior author on this article in JPSM, where you interviewed some geriatricians and other people caring for older adults, nurse practitioners, social workers, et cetera. Why don’t people want to document serious illness conversations? I think this is actually bread and butter geriatrics.
I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. Beth: I’m a nurse by training and then, obviously, the executive director. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. Jane: My mother died about 12 years ago. Beth: That is correct.
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.
More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.
So it can create a generativity or legacy document, that will be given to that individual so they can bequeath it to loved ones. For a palliative care physician, or a palliative care nurse to take the time out of their day to implement dignity therapy? We know that these conversations are recorded and transcribed and then edited.
And that’s not so much an instrumental value argument because once they’ve been in the trial, unlike with your docs and nurses, it’s not to try to get them to be in future trials or something so much as it is to recognize that past contribution, so I think that’s another example.
Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Danny 00:52 Thank you very much.
I think it was, and they asked three questions about geriatrics, including about anti-psychotics, and it read perfectly. When I first thought about this AI and what are the potential uses in geriatrics and palliative care in particular, I thought, oh, this is the last place where we’d want it, right?
They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. At its heart, it’s always been a brief, hopefully one page document that can be delivered to clinicians and or patients to get them thinking about topics related to goals of care discussions. So that then closes by saying, “Please document a short note.
And I ran into a nurse in the stairwell eating, because we don’t have any space to eat and she’s eating. So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. They were slightly mischaracterized.
I remember as a fellow, I would come in and our nurse practitioner on our hospice team, I would say the word narcotics, and f or half an hour, she would just lay into me. We try to document that it’s for cravings or withdrawal symptoms or Sach. Alex 01:17 We had the wrong terms drilled into us. So that’s a caution we have.
Jasmine Travers The pandemic shone a troubling spotlight on the unnecessary suffering resulting from substandard conditions in nursing homes. HPRD—and nurse aides (NAs)—2.45 HPRD—and nurse aides (NAs)—2.45 Tara Cortes The proposed requirements.
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