Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Series: Nursing Home Visits--A How-To Guide

Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Series: Nursing Home Visits--A How-To Guide
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
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Abstract: 

This podcast episode includes a how-to guide for effective nursing home visits, focusing on the admission H &P, routine nursing home visits, annual exams, and acute/urgent care visits. Podcast Pearl: Readmission to the Nursing Home after Hospitalization: Avoiding Problems

For more information about the series, go to http://www.ttuhsc.edu/som/fammed/ttmedcast/gerseries/default.aspx.

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Educational objectives: 

The listener should be able to:

  • Distinguish between the needs of short-term and those of long-term nursing home patients
  • Perform an Admission History & Physical exam on a nursing home patient
  • Perform and document a routine nursing home visit
  • Conduct an annual exam for a nursing home patient
  • Manage an acute or urgent visit when contacted by the nursing home
Additional information/Special implementation requirements or guidelines: 

This podcast episode is an MP3 file. It may be listened to on a computer with speakers or an MP3 player. It is available on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center website, where an episode fact sheet is also available, or for download from the iTunes Music Store (search term: "texas tech medcast").

Publications from, presentations from, and/or citations to this product: 

Jones BG, Bickley LS, Dentino A, Prabhu FR, Martin C, Balmes M, Neilson R, Urban S, Nutis D. Using Podcasting to Teach Geriatrics to Third-Year Medical Students. Innovations in Medical Education poster, 119th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, San Antonio, TX, October 31-November 5, 2008.

Jones BG, Bickley LS, Dentino A, Prabhu FR, Martin C, Balmes M, Neilson R, Urban S, Nutis D. Using Podcasting to Teach Geriatrics to Third-Year Medical Students. Peer Paper, 35th Annual Predoctoral Education Conference, Savannah, GA, January 22-24, 2009.

Jones BG, Bickley LS, Ragain RM, McMahon KK, Prabhu FR, Baker LK, Chauncey, KB Samiuddin M, Ranin M, McClure S, Casner P. Using Podcasting to Impact Third-Year Students' Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Geriatrics. Poster on Research in Progress to the North American Primary Care Research Group Annual Conference, San Juan, PR, October 2008.

Date posted: 
Tue, 09/08/2009
Date last updated: 
Tue, 09/08/2009
CME credits available: 
No
Has this product been peer reviewed?: 
No
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Contact person/corresponding author: 
Dr. Betsy Goebel Jones (betsy.jones@ttuhsc.edu)
Authors: 
Laura Baker
Dr. Betsy Goebel Jones
NLM Citation:
Baker, L and Jones, B. Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Series: Nursing Home Visits--A How-To Guide. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education; 2009 Available from: http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20263
APA Citation:
Baker, L and Jones, B. (2009). Texas Tech Medcast Reynolds Geriatrics Series: Nursing Home Visits--A How-To Guide. POGOe - Portal of Geriatric Online Education. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from http://www.pogoe.org/productid/20263