GeriPal

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

I’d be willing to take some time on a mechanical ventilation machine to live longer.” And so the idea that patients are walking around with these on their shoulder like, “Hey, I got the mechanical ventilation preference, just want to make sure.” ” Because I’m like, “Yeah, to what end?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Their oxygenation, while important, whether or not we can take them off the ventilator, probably has nothing to do with the big picture, oh, and they’re dying of metastatic pancreatic cancer. I think we use VitalTalk and we use SPIKES and NURSE and the REMAP. It may not be the big, big problem if you take a big step back.

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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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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? You both are nurse leaders who are doing this unique work out there.

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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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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear. And a lot of that work and effort has now been shifted onto a family who’s having to be doctors and nurses around the clock. Alex: Yeah.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 23, 2023

Nurses don’t always find the exact specialty that fuels their passion when they start out on a nursing path. Career opportunities and connections brought her to work as a poison control nurse, and Reid realized she found her place. Here, she shares some of her story about being a poison control nurse with Minority Nurse.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

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. 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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

So legally dead in California, family moved to New Jersey, where she was kind of alive despite having a death certificate for another four years, and then died four years later after being actually home on a ventilator for a while, too, we talked more about that with the Bob Truog podcast. So I was called out by the nurses.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

“Imagine that you are the medical director of a large (>150 bed) nursing home. The other physicians who previously saw patients in the nursing home are no longer coming to your facility because you have COVID positive patients. You’re short on nurses and nurse aids so now you have to help deliver meals.”.

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

We really tried to be very broad and were receiving mechanical ventilation for at least 48 hours continuously. And I would actually start putting things like nudges on this issue, nudges on mechanical ventilation, decisions for liberation, for example. Pretty much every organ system. It had to really think through. Thank you everyone!

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We did the Geriatric 5M approach to telemedicine with Lauren Mo. And then of course the pandemic hit and then everyone had to do telemedicine, whether it was inpatient, outpatient, you were at a skilled nursing facility and so forth. Brooke: I feel like you’re getting better year after year, so good. Alex: Hope so.

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