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

GeriPal

Eric 13:00 I also love that too, because even on our inpatient ballot of care consult service, whenever somebody says that they’re unrepresented or they don’t have a surrogate, we never believe that until we usually look up. Let’s say they’re in the ICU now on a ventilator. Their advanced directive.

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Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

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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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Palliative Care in Liver Disease: A Podcast with Kirsten Engel, Sarah Gillespie-Heyman, Brittany Waterman, & Amy Johnson

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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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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

You’re not hiring a bunch of social workers or nurses or docs to do it. You work with who’s there and they, they deliver care. It happens in the course of routine care. And instead of only being focused on the mechanical ventilation parameters that day, we force them to focus on prognosis.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And when I think about advance care planning too, it all goes back to like meaning making, like who is this person? I don’t need a checkbox form, I don’t need to know about CPR or mechanical ventilation. So I think that really questioning what we do is a good thing that routes to improved patient care.