It's nurses week! Please take a moment to thank the nurses in your life for the extraordinary work that they do.
For GeriPal, let's take a few moments to focus this year on thanking the many amazing nurse scientists in geriatrics and palliative care.
This is a list of a few of the many nurse scientists who have pushed hard on the boundaries of what is known in geriatrics and palliative care. I've just listed a first few to get the ball rolling.
- Mary Naylor - Developed the Transitional Care Model, research focuses on helping older adults with chronic conditions receive high quality care and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations.
- June Lunney - Described and provided empirical evidence for functional trajectories toward the end of life. People with cancer have a clear downward functional trajectory, whereas people with dementia slowly dwindle.
- Meg Wallhagen - Put hearing loss on the map as a major but often overlooked issue in the elderly, not to mention the elderly in palliative care.
- Marie Bakitas - Pioneer in palliative care in rural settings. Developed project ENABLE, a telephone based support intervention for people with advanced cancer.
- Betty Ferrell - THE big name researcher in the field of pain and quality of life for patients with cancer.
- Chris Miaskowski - Remarkable work in symptoms, symptom clusters, and translational research.
- Mary Ersek - National leader in palliative care in the nursing home and palliative care for Veterans.
- Judy Paice - Leading pain researcher nationally and internationally.
This list is by no means exhaustive! Not even close. But with your help it could be - please add to this list in the comments and via twitter.
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