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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Nurse-Physician Telephone Communication in a Long-term Care Facility

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
Telephone calls are the primary mode of nurse-physician communication in long term care facilities (LTCF). Staff turnover, lack of standardized protocols, and employee fatigue and multitasking could contribute to gaps in communication, leading to...

Seeing is Believing: Learners’ Perceptions of Interdisciplinary Team Roles

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
ACGME requirements for family medicine (FM) resident training include long-term care (LTC) education over a 24 month period. Many medical student and residents have little to no exposure with LTC patient care. Furthermore, there are many...

NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) Program: Long Term Care

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
The Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) is a nurse-led education and consultation program designed to improve the quality of care for older adults in healthcare organizations. The NICHE clinical practice model seeks to enhance the...

Improving Competences in Geriatric Knowledge of 6th Grade Medicine Students from Instituto Tecnológico y de Eestudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) Mexico in Medical Assistance for Older Adults who Live at the Nursing Home and Long Term Care (NH/LTC)

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
The global demographic transition, which Mexico is part of, with a larger number of older adults, families with less young members and the increase of NH/LTC in Mexico, makes it necessary for medicine students to learn about competences and...

Futures to CMD: 2017 Survey Results and Personal Reflections

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
The number of older adults receiving nursing home care is expected to rise from 1.2 million in 2000 to 2.7 million in 2040. To meet this increase, a geriatric-focused physician workforce with expertise in nursing home care is desperately needed. Yet...

Development of a Localized Community-Based Integrated Home Care System: Model Swapping through an International Symposium

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
The population in Taiwan is aging, and it is becoming a significant challenge for us to use limited resources to take care of all the older adults. Many home-bound older adults receive inadequate care, the majority of whom receive their prescription...

Developing and Testing Training to Improve Palliative Care Communication Skills in the Nursing Home

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
In skilled nursing facilities (SNF), effective communication between interdisciplinary team (IDT) members, patients, residents, and their surrogates is essential to provide high-quality palliative and end of life (EOL) care. However, clinical staff...

A Framework for Imparting Short, Actionable Teaching of Geriatrics Topics Using Audio Podcasts for Housestaff: Preliminary Results

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
As the US population ages, recognizing and providing care for those with geriatric syndromes will become ever more important. However, with most trainees learning in hospitals, the opportunities for discovering practical ways of implementing...

When Back Pain Is Not Benign: A Case of Spinal Osteomyelitis and Diskitis

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
Back pain is a common complaint in the post acute and long term case setting. The most common causes include musculoskeletal pain and degenerative disease, but back pain may also be secondary to more serious causes, such as malignancy and infection.

When Back Pain Becomes Ominous: A Case of High Grade Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of Kidney Origin in a Geriatric Patient

JAMDA
March 1, 2018
Back pain is a common geriatric complaint. 70% of adults in Germany have at least one episode of back pain a year. Consistently back pain ranks in the top 5 disabling disorders in the United states. Multiple providers including chiropractors are...