The John A' Hartford Foundation

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The John A. Hartford Foundation
Geriatric Nursing Initiative
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JAHF Geriatric Nursing Initiative

• The JAHF Institute for Geriatric Nursing
• First Award 1996 2001 5.0 Million
• Second Award 2001 2006 5.0 Million
• American Academy of Nursing
• Coordinating Center Scholar Program (5 years)
  8.0 Million
• Nursing School Geriatric Investment Program (3
  years) 2.2 Million
• Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (5
  years) 6.7 Million
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• Enhancing Geriatric Nursing Education (4 years)
  4.0 Million
• Creating Careers in Geriatric Advance Practice
  Nursing (4 years) 2.2 Million
• The Measurement Group Evaluating the JAHF
  Geriatric Nursing Initiatives
• (3 years) 0.9 Million

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GERIATRIC NURSING EDUCATION PROJECT

• John A. Hartford Foundation /
• American Association of Colleges of Nursing
• Polly Bednash, PhD, RN, FAAN Executive
  Director AACN
• Joan Stanley, PhD, RN, CFNP Director Education
  Policy
• Deirdre Thornlow, MN, RN Gerontology Project
  Director
• Annie Alesandrini, BA, Project Assistant
• Sara Gore, BS, Project Assistant

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Geriatric Nursing Education

• Enhancing Geriatric Nursing Education for
  Undergraduate and Advanced Practice Nursing
  Programs
• Creating Careers in Geriatric Advanced Practice
  Nursing

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Enhancing Geriatric Nursing Curriculum

• Concentrated effort to stimulate innovations
• in geriatric curriculum and formulate new
  clinical experiences to enable nurses to develop
  the specialized skills needed to provide high
  quality care to older adults

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Enhancing Geriatric Nursing CurriculumProgram
Goals / Objectives

• Demonstrate curriculum impact on baseline program
• Develop curricula reflective of national
  benchmarks
• Create a set of benchmark standards for educating
  APNs
• Improve skill and knowledge of nurse
• Develop new partnerships between education and
  practice
• Increase recruitment of students
• Attain individualized institutional goals
• Disseminate findings to larger community
• Demonstrate mechanism for sustaining improvement

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Geriatric Nursing Education Curriculum Awardees

• Undergraduate Awardees
• Fairfield University
• Florida International University
• Grand Valley State University
• Illinois State University
• La Salle University
• MCP Hahnemann University
• Metropolitan State University
• NYU Steinhardt School of Education
• Otterbein College
• SUNY at Stony Brook
• Tuskegee University
• University of Delaware
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland
• University of Michigan
• University of Missouri-Columbia

• University of North Carolina Greensboro
• University of Rhode Island
• University of Washington
• Valparaiso University
• Advanced Practice Awardees
• Case Western Reserve University
• East Tennessee State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• University of Arkansas
• University of California San Francisco
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Michigan
• University of North Carolina Greensboro
• University of Virginia
• Western University

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Individualized Objectives Graduate

• Strengthen existing GNP / GCNS program
• Enhance gerontology content in other APN programs
  (eg ANP, FNP, cardiology, etc)
• Strengthen mental health / gero-psych
• Develop web-based courses
• Other

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Strengthen Existing GNP / GCNS

• Change course sequence
• Redesign curriculum length
• Foster retention
• Combine GNP/GCNS tracks
• Develop / enhance gerontology courses

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GNP / GCNS Courses

• Introduction to Normal Aging (university
  offering)
• Adult/Older Adult
• Concepts and Theories
• Analysis and Application
• Advanced Nursing Practicum
• Gero-pharmacology (n2)
• Mgmt of Older Adults with Progressive
  Neurological Disorders

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Enhance Gero Content in APN Program

• Infuse geriatric content into all APN courses
• Offer courses / concentrations to all APNs
• Geropsychiatric Nursing concentration (1 core 1
  elective on-line)
• Issues in Gerontological Health (required GNP,
  elective APN)
• Develop web-based gero modules for APN programs
• Combine Adult/Older Adult CNS didactic (core)
• Dual certify FNP/ANP as GNP
• Pre-test for geriatric competencies

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Strengthen Gero-Psych Content

• Course Offerings
• Mental Health of Older Adults (GNP didactic) /
• Mental Health Interventions with Older Adult
  (GNPclinical)
• Geropsychiatric Nursing Theory (GNP didactic
  clinical)
• Bio-behavior Aging and Mental Illness /
• Issues in Aging and Mental Illness (APN
  concentration)

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Develop Web-Based Courses

• Post-masters certification program
• Web-based concentration
• Web-based modules to incorporate geriatric
  content into APN programs
• Developing courses as on-line offerings

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Dissemination Activities

• Awardees will actively collaborate with AACN to
  disseminate all curricular materials or products
  designed to meet the goals of the project
• locally, regionally nationally
• website postings, linkages
• publications, conferences, etc
• All papers, releases, interviews, etc should
  acknowledge the John A. Hartford Foundation
• copies of all materials are sent to AACN
• Publication of a summary document describing
  projects at various institutions

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Networking Activities

• Develop an active network among all Hartford
  Nursing Initiative recipients and individuals
  interested in improving care to older adults
  through curricular innovation and collaboration.
• List Serve geriatric_nursing-subscribe_at_yahoogroup
  s.com
• Web site aacn.nche.edu
• Conferences
• Affiliation with National Organizations

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Creating Careers in Geriatric Advanced Practice
Nursing

• The grant provides scholarship monies to schools
  of nursing to expand opportunities for nursing
  students to choose a career in geriatric advanced
  practice nursing

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Creating Careers in Geriatric APNGoals /
Objectives

• Enhance geographical, cultural, ethnic, and
  gender diversity
• Increase enrollment of full-time students in
  geriatric APN
• Increase retention and graduation of full-time
  students
• Increase graduates nationally certified as GCNS
  or GNP
• Develop new private or public partnerships
• Involve scholarship recipients in activities that
  promote, build and sustain careers in geriatric
  APN
• Disseminate successes and innovations to larger
  community

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Creating Careers Awardees Awards were granted to
23 Schools of Nursing schools will use the
monies to encourage enrollment of gt 160
geriatric APN students

• University of California, San Francisco
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Maryland
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Rhode Island
• University of Texas Health Science Center at San
  Antonio
• University of Washington
• Wilkes University
• Yale University

• Boston College
• Case Western Reserve University
• Duke University
• Emory University
• George Mason University
• Long Island University,
• Brooklyn Campus
• Northeastern University
• Oregon Health Sciences University
• Radford University
• Rush University
• Seattle Pacific University
• University of California, Los Angeles