Integrating Competency in Care for Older Adults into Advanced Practice Nursing Programs

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Integrating Competency in Care for Older Adults
into Advanced Practice Nursing Programs

• Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN, Director
• The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for
  Geriatric Nursing
• The Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing
  Education New York University
  
  Division of Nursing

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This session will examine

• Variety of ideas and models on Geriatrics in
  Advanced Practice Nursing Programs
• Issues related to Recruitment
• Integration of Geriatric Content into Advanced
  Practice Nursing Programs

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Geriatric Preparation for Entrance into Advance
Practice Nursing

• Advanced Practice nursing students may not have
  had adequate undergraduate preparation in
  geriatrics

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National Survey Baccalaureate Curricula Lack
Content on Aging

• Only 23 of schools have freestanding course in
  geriatrics
• For integrated curriculum, 1/3 schools have less
  than 10 of course devoted to geriatrics

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National Survey Baccalaureate Curricula
continued

• For integrated curriculum, no school had more
  than 25 of content devoted to geriatrics in any
  one course
• Curriculum overload and lack of faculty expertise
  seen as major barriers

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Geriatric Course Design
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Percent of Geriatric Contentin Integrated Courses
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Model of Assessment and Remediation

• Dr. Beth Towner, Western University
• Pre-testing a tool (i.e. reliability and
  validity)
• Remediation prior to entrance to program
• Hartford Institute Online Certification Review
  Course (free)
• Next step mapping Online Certification Review
  Course with baccalaureate competencies

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Broadening Program Options to Enhance Recruitment

• National Council of State Boards of Nursing
  reported in 1996 that 68.5 of new nurses have
  older adults as majority of caseload
• Yet, GNP Programs do not attract greatest number
  of advance practice nursing students
• Students may view limitations not opportunities
• Core Business

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Dual Program Options

• GNP/ANP
• GNP/FNP
• GNP/CNS

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Replicate Models and Share Strategies for Success

• We are charged with meeting this nations
  critical nursing demand
• We must prepare nurses to be competent in the
  core business of hospitals and of healthcare,
  older adults

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