Palliative Care PAs: Heros In Medicine

Palliative Care PAs: Heros In Medicine

What does it really mean to provide compassionate care when a cure is no longer possible? In this episode of PA Playbook, hosts Eileen Ravella, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, and Troy Bender, DMSc, PA-C, welcome Tracey Piparo, PA-C, an experienced palliative care physician associate, for an insightful conversation about the vital role PAs play in improving quality of life for patients with serious illness. Together, they explore the principles of palliative care, dispel common misconceptions, discuss symptom management, communication with patients and families, and the growing need for palliative care providers in today's healthcare system. Whether you practice in primary care, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, or a specialty setting, this episode offers practical insights to help clinicians recognize when palliative care can make a meaningful difference. Join us as we highlight the compassion, expertise, and leadership of PAs who help patients live as well as possible at every stage of serious illness.

A Good Death: Lessons From a Palliative Care Chaplain

How does a palliative care Hospice chaplain bridge End Of Life discussion between family patient and providers?

Developing Leadership Skills: Are We Ever Done?

From perception to practice, another dive into leadership strategies for growth minded PAs and more!

���Dr��� A Profession or an Academic Title?

Join us and our guests nurse practitioners Bob Smithing and Nancy Lawton as we discuss controversy surrounding nurse practitioners and PAs using Dr in the clinical setting.

AAPA Candidate: Paola Gonzalez

AAPA elections open Don May 18. Meet your candidates. What do you want from your candidate? What does the director at Large do? What do they see as AAPA's priorities? Join PA Playbook as we interview candidates for Director at Large and AAPA president. Best of luck to all the candidates.