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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. This is Eric Widera. Alex 01:24 This is Alex Smith. Eric 01:25 And Alex, who do we have with us today? Eric 20:31 Yeah.

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Patient Advocacy: A Closer Look

Diversity Nursing

Patient advocacy is a critical aspect of providing safe and effective patient care. Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics.

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Research Nursing: A Comprehensive Overview

Diversity Nursing

They are responsible for recruiting and screening eligible participants, obtaining informed consent, and ensuring strict adherence to the study protocol. Patient Care These Nurses also provide comprehensive care to participants in clinical trials.

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The Legal Responsibilities of Nursing

Diversity Nursing

The legal aspects of Nursing are just as important as the clinical aspects to ensure you are providing safe patient care. Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice is when a Nurse fails to provide patient care that meets the established standards of the Nursing profession, which results in patient compromise or harm.

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5 Steps to a Stronger Nursing Resume

Minority Nurse

Deeply committed to providing evidence-based, high-quality, compassionate, cost-effective patient care through constructive multidisciplinary collaboration and quality improvement. Be certain to keep in touch with your references, make sure they know when you’re actively job-hunting, and keep their contact information up to date.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. It’s opening this stock box of, all of a sudden, now what do I do with this information? Katie: Yeah.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

Who do you give informed consent to? I don’t ask any of my patients whether or not they have capacity to make a decision about eating or drinking. It is the CME activity providers responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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