Beyond their fundamental responsibilities of administering medications and providing hands-on patient care, most nurses, particularly advanced practice professionals, are instrumental in the ...

The use of a new advance care planning (ACP) model in Canadian nursing homes yielded high ratings by residents or their proxies, and was linked to decreased use of antimicrobials, investigators say.

Graduates of the MSN Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) Specialty are educated to care for adolescents and young adults to older adults and their primary care needs including ...

(Green Bay, WI) - The old saying "never say never" takes on a profound reality when applied to hospital events that are never supposed to happen but, in reality, often do. These events are referred to ...

Dr. Chino welcomes Dr. Yael Schenker to discuss a new clinical trial testing the best way of engaging patients with Advance Care Planning (ACP), the process of understanding personal values, life ...

Prevalence, screening, treatment, and complications of osteoporosis and osteopenia in Medicare patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Improve, a community-based exercise intervention versus ...

Nearly half of all older adults now die with a dementia diagnosis, up more than one-third (36%) in just the past two decades, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical ...

A training initiative sought to improve staff confidence and knowledge about advance care planning and highlighted reasons why such conversations may be difficult. Abstract Educators from St Luke’s ...