Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. I recently asked one oncologist what he thinks about palliative care, and he said, “I sort of look at my role with the patient is to present the glass half full, meaning treatment.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

And for a few reasons, which I’m sure we’ll get into, I think it’s probably most effective upstream of the acute care setting, more in the nursing home setting or for patients who are not presenting in the hospital or emergency department setting. Welcome, Abby. Abby: Thanks for having me. We changed our name. Good to know.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

And now ICU care has flourished, and we can keep people alive in the sense that their heart is beating and we can sustain their ventilation and circulation. For example, I had another patient in the ICU who she was on a ventilator. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. It’s certainly not common in my practice.

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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. That will be the last one in his life. Don’t ask anybody. Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. I think one of the residents you asked how would they broach a subject, and he said wording like, “Unfortunately, he still needs a ventilator.”

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

As part of the college graduation process, my class made oral presentations to the Board of Nursing, explaining how the non-traditional student learning processes of those last few weeks had prepared us to become nurses — as if we really understood what that meant or what we would have to do to when we became nurses. Graduation and Beyond.

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The Nurse Break

APRIL 3, 2022

I was a Civil Engineer for six years but made the move to nursing for the many pathways and opportunities it presents, as well as a better work/life balance. All men should consider Nursing as a career because of the flexibility, and opportunities that the career presents. Mental Health Nursing. Miscellaneous. News & Spotlights.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 5, 2022

As part of the college graduation process, my class made oral presentations to the Board of Nursing, explaining how the non-traditional student learning processes of those last few weeks had prepared us to become nurses — as if we really understood what that meant or what we would have to do to when we became nurses. Graduation and Beyond.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

So whether or not somebody wants to be on CPR or ventilator, that sort of thing. So the disconnect there potentially with healthcare providers is when we talk about end of life and end-of-life planning, we’re thinking about the before death stuff. I told her no one’s ever made it- Karen: It was great. It was great.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. Jennifer, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Jennifer 00:28 It’s great to be here. Sydney, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Sydney 00:41 Thank you. Sydney 06:37 Yes. Eric 06:38 Let me ask you this. Eric 14:18 Okay.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Right, my answer that brings us a little bit closer to the present than my childhood. So the kind of technological bind we’re talking about that first became recognized in the sixties or so with ventilators, the kinds of technologies that we have to sustain different kinds of bodily function. They don’t need a heart.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

We invited Jim back with us along with Darrell Owens , DNP, MSN, who is the head of palliative care for the University of Washington’s Northwest campus. . What I loved about this March 2020 podcast was that Darrell pushed us to think differently: “Expect that it’s not business as usual. Welcome back to GeriPal, Darrell. Darrell: Pretty amazing.

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