GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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.

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Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Nursing recently conducted a meta-analysis of studies involving more than 33,000 cancer patients to evaluate the relationship between advance care planning and utilization of aggressive versus comfort-focused care.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

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.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

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. And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

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.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’re able to provide IV treatments, and we’re even able to do home extubations with ventilator support. I think that those hospital modalities at VITAS were able to bring high-flow oxygen and other breathing modalities into the home. We have to serve those individuals that are in between. For me, that’s a huge win.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

Men make up approximately 11% of the Australian nursing workforce (Nursing & Midwifery Board of Australia, 2019). There are many reasons why men don’t consider nursing, one of which is the massive misconception that nursing is a profession for females only. Aged Care Nursing. Airforce, Navy, Army Nursing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

And Lauren Ferrante has found in a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that trajectories of disability in the year prior to ICU admission were highly predictive of disability post-ICU, on the same order of magnitude as mechanical ventilation. How do I reconcile these two issues? Lauren: Shock. Lauren: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JULY 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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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

My residency class had to deal with circumstances nurses haven’t had to deal with since the 1917 Spanish Flu pandemic, or ever before. At the start of the pandemic in North Carolina, student nurses were removed from all hospitals during our final clinical rotations because of a “mysterious disease”. Graduation and Beyond.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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? We talk in particular about: Terminology. Karen: Thank you. Alex: Great.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Whether it’s the consult rate or documentation of a conversation, hospice referrals, those kinds of things, and then patient outcomes, quality of life, symptom burden. You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes?

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The Nurse Break

MAY 1, 2022

Meet Air Ambulance Nurse Jenna! A Flight Nurse for LifeFlight and an emergency nurse, Jenna gives us an insight into what retrieval nursing is really all about. Check out our other flight nursing articles below! If you’d like to be featured on The Nurse Break, write for us! Flight Nursing Articles.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

Among some of the topics I’ve addressed are the failure to report major changes in a patient’s condition and the necessity of accurate documentation in a patient’s medical record in whatever form. The following case is another great example of how important it is for nursing staff to maintain their standards of care.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

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. Emily: Yeah.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

My residency class had to deal with circumstances nurses haven’t had to deal with since the 1917 Spanish Flu pandemic, or ever before. At the start of the pandemic in North Carolina, student nurses were removed from all hospitals during our final clinical rotations because of a “mysterious disease.” Graduation and Beyond.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Republished article of The Nurse Path. Find more of The Nurse Path here. It has been well documented that during a disaster the bulk (and often, the most critically injured) of patients will arrive by their own means and not by ambulance, and that is exactly what happened. Check out our other articles and guest bloggers here.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Nursing shortages, coupled with increased demands related to an aging population. Without this shared knowledge, the likelihood of Alice’s wishes being respected and carried out decreases.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 16, 2022

Among some of the topics I’ve addressed are the failure to report major changes in a patient’s condition and the necessity of accurate documentation in a patient’s medical record in whatever form. The following case is another great example of how important it is for nursing staff to maintain their standards of care.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Whether you are a brand-new nurse looking to establish good storage habits early or an experienced nurse looking for help fixing a disorderly and dangerous practice, here are the essentials for storing your medical supplies safely. If you are a home health nurse , you don’t have the luxury of a large, lockable storage room.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. Wait, how is that actually defined?

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