Lessons in Leadership Using the Art of Poker
1. Participants will be able to describe three initiatives which can be employed to strengthen leadership skills.2. Participants will be able to list three practices which can be used to mentor and support direct reports or team members.Back by popular demand. This interactive session will provide guidance for developing both leadership and poker skills. The first portion of the session will involve the use of didactic presentations, polls, group discussions to provide education on leadership, reading people, both at the poker table and in your work setting, using poker skills to mentor and lead your teams, and knowing whi...
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ginger Marshall, Holli Martinez Source Type: research
Mental Health Experts ’ Opinions About the Use of AI to Support Grieving Families: Helpful or Hype? (GP134)
1. Gain familiarity with generative artificial intelligence and its applications to mental health.2. Learn how to conduct empirical research in palliative care focused on the opinions of children's mental health professionals regarding artificial intelligence. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Mary Rose Yockel, Marcelo Sleiman, Heather Doherty, Rachel Adams, Kimberly M. Davis, Hunter Groninger, Kathryn A. Walker, Kenneth P. Tercyak Source Type: research
Daily Social Support, Social Isolation, and the Mental Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Adults Living with Cancer (GP116)
1. Discuss how mental health varies day-to-day for sexual and gender minority adults living with cancer.2. Describe the relationship between social support, social isolation, and daily depression among sexual and gender minority adults living with cancer. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Frank Puga, Elisha Underwood, Rodney O. Tucker, James Nicholas Odom, Marie A. Bakitas Source Type: research
The Prevalence of Lifetime Trauma and Association with Symptom Burden among Adults in the Last Years of Life
1. To describe the prevalence of lifetime trauma among persons in the last years of life and different patterns across gender.2. To understand the association of lifetime trauma with physical symptoms, mental health, and social needs, and clinical implications for trauma-informed palliative care. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Ashwin Kotwal, Irena Cenzer, Alexander Smith, Chelsea Brown, Carla A. Perissinotto, Kate A. Duchowny, Ashwin Kotwal Source Type: research
Improving Safe Opioid Prescribing for Pediatric Hospice and Palliative Care Patients
1. Utilizing a quality improvement-approach, participants will self-report the ability to assess the implementation of several opioid safety components (i.e. opioid safety contract, open-ended question, and mental health screener) and how they may improve safety regarding opioid prescribing in pediatric hospice/palliative care patients.2. Utilizing a quality improvement-approach, participants will self-report the ability to learn skills relating to discussing safe opioid prescribing with pediatric hospice/palliative care patients and their families. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: William Johansen, Carol Massmann, Jessica Bray, Emily Daut Source Type: research
Tackling Tough Conversations
1. Identify the three reasons why seriously ill families/ patients ask for things that you think are unreasonable.2. Clearly understand a headline.3. Acquire the skills to learn about an incapacitated patient's values.Part 1: How To Deal With Family Requests For Treatment You Think Are UnreasonableDealing with families who request treatments that the medical team think is unreasonable often leads to moral distress, and ruptured relationships. The goal of this talk is to give clinicians both a mental model and the communication skills needed to handle these difficult conversations. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Robert Arnold, Patricia H. Berry, Margaret L. Campbell, Anna Deforest Source Type: research
Persistent Pain Below the Belt: Palliative Care's Unusual Role in the Management of Priapism
1. Participants will hypothesize and discuss the potential elements of total pain experienced by sickle cell patients facing complications of prolonged priapism, including but not limited to: physical, social, spiritual, cultural, existential, and psychological aspects of pain.2. Participants will recognize and analyze the diverse implications associated with the complications of prolonged priapism, specifically exploring the impact on the patient's mental, sexual, and reproductive health. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lauren Lewis, Ashima Lal, Carina Oltmann Source Type: research
Primary Mental Health Competencies for Palliative Medicine Physicians: A Consensus-Prioritized List
1. List 5 mental health competencies in which they already have expertise.2. Identify 2 potential sources for further learning when a physician has a relative lack of expertise in a mental health competency (i.e. a licensed clinical social worker on their existing clinical team, journal articles in the palliative medicine or mental health literature, a consult-liaison psychiatrist with shared patient populations, etc). (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Lisa Podgurski, Keri O. Brenner, Danielle Chammas, Neha Goyal, Maria Lapid, Sue E. Morris, William F. Pirl, Leah B. Rosenberg, Bridget Sumser, Ben Thompson, Daniel Shalev Source Type: research
Living in Stillness: Learning from Art and Literature on Dignity and Despair in Advanced ALS
1. Through exploration of art and stories, participants will gain a patient-centered understanding of the spiritual, relationship and psychological dimensions of living with ALS.2. Through the exploration of art and stories participants will be able to report the value of medical humanities in patient-centered education. (Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management)
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 19, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Suzana Makowski, Kate Brizzi, Ali M. Mendelson, Rita C. Crooms, Ambereen K. Mehta, Neha Kramer, Akanksha Sharma Source Type: research
Deep-ultraviolet n-ZnGa_2O_4/p-GaN heterojunction photodetector fabricated by pulsed laser deposition
Zinc gallium oxide (ZnGa_2O_4) has attracted considerable interest in deep-ultraviolet photodetectors, due to the ultrawide bandgap, high ... (Source: Optics Letters)
Source: Optics Letters - April 19, 2024 Category: Physics Authors: Ning Cao Lichun Zhang Xin Li Xianling Meng Doudou Liang Yadan Zhu Fengzhou Zhao Source Type: research
Organic Hole Transport Materials for High Performance PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D4CC01194E, CommunicationLi Zhang, Shunqiang Wang, Yi Shi, Jiazi Xu, Shuang Cao, Zijian Deng, Yong Chen, Junjie Zhang, Xichuan Yang, Zhen Meng, Quli Fan, Bin Sun We developed a triazatruxene-based hole transport material (HTM), 3Ka-DBT-3Ka, aiming to enhance band alignment and augment charge generation and collection in devices, alternative for 1,2-ethanedithiol (EDT). The PbS CQD solar... The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry (Source: RSC - Chem. Commun. latest articles)
Source: RSC - Chem. Commun. latest articles - April 19, 2024 Category: Chemistry Authors: Li Zhang Source Type: research
GSE262541 Astrocyte-mediated regulation of BLAWFS1 neurons alleviates risk-assessment deficits in DISC1-N mice
Contributors : Xinyi Zhou ; Qian Xiao ; Yaohui Liu ; Shuai Chen ; Xirong Xu ; Zhigang Zhang ; Yuchuan Hong ; Jie Shao ; Yuewen Chen ; Yu Chen ; Liping Wang ; Fan Yang ; Jie TuSeries Type : Expression profiling by high throughput sequencingOrganism : Mus musculusAssessing and responding to threats is vital in everyday life. Unfortunately, many mental illnesses involve impaired risk assessment, affecting patients, families, and society. The brain processes behind these behaviors are not well understood. We developed a transgenic mouse model (DISC1-N) with a disrupted avoidance response in risky settings. Our stu...
Source: GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus - April 19, 2024 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Tags: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing Mus musculus Source Type: research
Study: Roughly 1 in 8 Patients Wrongly Diagnosed With Pneumonia
About 12% of patients were inappropriately diagnosed with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to results from more than 17 000 hospitalized patients across 48 hospitals in Michigan. Older people as well as those with dementia or altered mental status were at particularly high risk of being inappropriately diagnosed, which the researchers defined as patients receiving antibiotics when they had fewer than 2 symptoms of pneumonia or negative chest x-ray results. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Loneliness Tied to Worse Physical, Mental Health Among Older Adults
About 53% of people aged 65 years or older experienced loneliness between April 2020 and September 2021, a recent study involving 603 primary care patients found. Older adults who reported loneliness tended to score lower on measures of physical – and mental health–related quality of life. However, after the researchers adjusted for depression and anxiety, the link between loneliness and mental health remained, which wasn’t the case between loneliness and physical health. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
Heart Disease Outcomes Improve After Mental Health Treatments
Patients with heart disease as well as anxiety or depression who received mental health treatments tended to have a substantially lower risk of mortality as well as a reduced chance of hospital readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits, according to a cohort study in Journal of the American Heart Association. The results were based on about 1600 patients covered by Medicaid in Ohio who had been hospitalized for heart failure or coronary artery disease and were followed up for roughly 4 years. (Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association)
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - April 19, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research
