Viewpoints

The Opioid Crisis: Treating the Real Cause The enduring solution to the opioid epidemic lies in addressing the underlying causes and helping people find healing and hope in a world fraught with challenges and pain.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 19, 2017
Nurses and the Recognition of Delirium in Hospitalized Patients Nurses must be able to recognize, assess, and appropriately document delirium in hospitalized older adults.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 16, 2017
Improving Surgeon-Patient Communication About High-Risk Surgery A practical tool can aid difficult communication between surgeon and patient when high-risk surgery is under consideration.
Experts And Viewpoints, June 06, 2017
Deathbed Visions at End of Life If a patient has a deathbed vision, is it spiritual or physiologic? What's your view?
Experts And Viewpoints, May 23, 2017
Room for Improvement: Communicating News in Advanced Cancer When communicating news about scans to patients with advanced cancer, clinicians often go straight from results to treatment, skipping significance to the patient.
Experts And Viewpoints, May 19, 2017
In Search of a Better Way to Measure Quality Primary Care Scorecards and rigid primary care quality measures do no favors to patients or clinicians.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 26, 2017
Are Nurses Well Prepared to Care for Geriatric Patients? Nurses prepared in gerontological care are insufficient in number to meet the growing need.
Experts And Viewpoints, April 03, 2017
Do We Know What Matters Most to Cancer Patients? Compared with patients with solid tumors, those with hematologic cancers may have different, unmet needs.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 24, 2017
Removing Barriers to Pain Relief in Older Adults Approaches to pain have shifted from concerns about undertreatment to concerns about overprescribing. Where can we find the balance for older adults?
Experts And Viewpoints, February 23, 2017
What Is Killing Us and What Can We Do About It? Preventing disease and mortality through lifestyle change may be our last, best hope.
Experts And Viewpoints, February 15, 2017
Coping With Caregiving at Home Family caregivers deal with their burden in different ways. What does it mean for the patient's care?
Experts And Viewpoints, January 30, 2017
EHR Workarounds: Work Smarter, Not Harder Tom Bartol argues that workarounds can make EHR documentation less burdensome, but only if we share tips and tricks with our colleagues.
Experts And Viewpoints, January 19, 2017
Intimacy Issues in Palliative Care: How to Ask A pilot study provides a simple method of asking patients about their intimacy concerns, even those near the end of life.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 23, 2016
Training in Spiritual Care: On the Right Course A training program demonstrates success in helping generalist clinicians become comfortable in the provision of spiritual care.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 20, 2016
Help for Hospice Staff: Meaningful Rituals Hospice staff use meaningful rituals to alleviate the stress of observing death on a daily basis.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 13, 2016
Tips for Deprescribing in the Nursing Home Deprescribing can address the problem of polypharmacy in older adults, especially those in long-term care settings.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 08, 2016
Palliative Care Needs of Young Adults With Life-Limiting Conditions Many young adults are living with serious, life-limiting diseases, and their palliative care needs differ from those of older persons.
Experts And Viewpoints, December 01, 2016
Influences on Prescribing Behavior in Diabetes Many factors -- not all of them patient-related -- enter into the clinician's choice of drug treatment for diabetes.
Experts And Viewpoints, November 28, 2016
Role of Nurse Practitioners in Delivering Bad News A shortage of clinicians in palliative care creates an opportunity for nurse practitioners to hone their communication skills.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 21, 2016
Autonomy and Control for Long-term Care Residents Patient-centered care, a model in which a person's values and preferences are respected, enhances quality of life for long-term care residents.
Experts And Viewpoints, October 05, 2016

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