Creating a More Elder- Friendly Healthcare Workforce

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Creating a More Elder- Friendly Healthcare
Workforce

• NY Connects Genesee Care Options
• Genesee County Office for the Aging
• Genesee Community College

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Solutions to Workforce Challenges

• Goal Preparing an elder-friendly
  aging-sensitive nursing workforce in the
  Genesee-Orleans Wyoming- Livingston region.
• Working Together Genesee Community College
  Nursing Program and the Long Term Care Task
  Force, under the leadership of NY Connects
  Genesee Care Options/OFA, work together to
  develop and implement the GCC Geriatric Clinical
  Rotation.

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Long Term Care Task Force Collaboration

• GCCs Lifespan Nursing Course Geriatric Clinical
  Rotation and Gundersen-Lutheran Respecting
  Choices ACP Facilitator Training.
• Long Term Care Task Force host agencies agency
  visits and one on one well elder visits with
  nursing students.

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Student Activities

• Well elder home visits
• Assessment, health teaching
• Community agency visits
• Respecting Choices
• Individual and group presentations
• Long Term Care

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Long Term Care Task Force Actions

• Collaboration with agencies
• Well elder client enrollment and coordination
• Americorps Member
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Well elder surveys
• Student pre and post tests

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Creating a More Elder Friendly Workforce Change
in Student Perceptions towards Older Adults
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Surveys Testimonials

• Surveys and testimonials from RN Students
  validate the change in attitude and knowledge
  regarding their work with older adults.
• Students particularly surprised by the range of
  community and home based support services
  available. Most only vaguely aware of prior to
  this experience.
• Many stated that their perceptions of older
  adults changed and they would be more favorable
  in working with older adults in their nursing
  career.

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Results

• 193 RN Students complete Geriatric Clinical
  Rotation August 08 through December 09
• Awareness of resources
• Perceptions of the well elder
• Value of ACP
• Health needs of older adults
• Collaboration within the community

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Future Sustainability of Initiative

• Curriculum development completed
• Working relationships with agencies established
  and ongoing
• Involvement and recruitment of well elders
• Tracking and scheduling systems in place
• Americorp Member
• Training Kit for implementation in other nursing
  programs

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