Publications by Gretchen Fitzgerald

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Delivering specialized palliative care in the community: a new role for nurse practitioners.

Lynn M Deitrick Elke H Rockwell Nancy Gratz Carolyn Davidson Lou Lukas Gretchen Fitzgerald

ANS Adv Nurs Sci

March 2012

The rising population of older Americans with advanced illness challenges current care delivery models. We use the metaphor of advanced illness as a difficult journey and propose a specific role, that of the "OACIS NP [nurse practitioner]," who helps provide a place of refuge during this journey. "OACIS" is an acronym for Optimizing Advanced Complex Illness Support, a program to provide home-based palliative medical care.

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