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New Directions: The e-Newsletter of the Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative | |
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5, Issue 3
November 9, 2007—Special GSA Issue! Welcome
to New Directions, a publication of the
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1. HGNI Leadership Conference in San Francisco 2. Nursing Highlights at GSA Conference 3. BAGNC Scholarships & Fellowships—Don’t Miss this Opportunity to Become a Geriatric Nursing Leader! 4. AACN’s GNEC Faculty Training Institutes Draw Crowds in Portland and Atlanta—Apply Now for St. Louis 1. HGNI Leadership Conference in San Francisco The 7th Annual HGNI Leadership Conference will be held November 14-16, at the Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, CA. For more information, including the conference program and a link to information on this year’s recipient of the Mary Starke Harper Distinguished Lectureship, Shirley Chater, PhD, RN, FAAN, please see: www.geriatricnursing.org/leadership/leadership-conference.asp. 2. Nursing Highlights at GSA Conference
Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Conference November 16-20, 2007 Hilton San Francisco and Towers San Francisco, CA Here are just a couple of the exciting nursing events taking place at the conference: HGNI Exhibit Booth #212-214 Look for the Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative booth, a place to meet and greet. We hope to see you there! Nursing Care of Older Adults Interest Group Meeting Saturday, November 17 6:00-7:30 PM Continental 6 Nursing Care of Older Adults Interest Group Symposium Lessons in Global Aging: Research, Health, Creativity & Social Engagement Miriam Friedman Kelty, PhD, Chair, NIH Inter-Institute Bioethics Interest Group May Wykle, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA, Case Western Reserve University, Dean and Florence Cellar Professor of Gerontological Nursing, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing Saturday, November 17 3:30-5:00 PM Yosemite A A full listing of HGNI presentations at GSA is available now at www.hgni.org. It will also be available at the conference at the HGNI booth, #212-214. To register for the conference, visit the GSA 2007 Conference Website at: www.agingconference.com/. 3.
BAGNC Scholarships & Fellowships—Don’t Miss this Opportunity to Become a Geriatric Nursing Leader!
Learn more at GSA! Join us for a breakfast session “Career Development Opportunities in Geriatric Nursing.” This meeting will be held Saturday, November 17th, from 7:00-8:00 AM in Union Square 14. Among the items discussed will be the 2008 Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholarships (up to $100,000) and Claire M. Fagin Fellowships (up to $120,000), as well as Nurse MBA Scholarships (up to $50,000). Please go to: www.geriatricnursing.org/applications for application criteria. Applications are due January 15, 2008. 4.
Opportunities, Resources & Tools
AACN’s GNEC Faculty Training Institutes Draw Crowds in Portland and Atlanta: Apply Now for St. Louis The first two Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium (GNEC) Institutes were both oversubscribed and very well-reviewed by participants. The Portland event, held June 27-29, 2007, attracted 138 nurse faculty; 140 attended the Atlanta session October 3-5, 2007. One hundred and fifty-six schools of nursing and all but eight states have been represented thus far. GNEC is an innovative national initiative to enhance geriatric content in senior-level baccalaureate courses. Administered by AACN, this program provides nursing educators with the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to ensure that the best geriatric practices are imbedded in baccalaureate curricula and subsequently in the clinical care provided by newly educated nurses. Using a train-the-trainer approach, nurse faculty attending the GNEC institutes are expected to serve as leaders and mentors by sharing their new expertise with colleagues. This program is generously funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation. AACN is now accepting online applications for the October 2008 GNEC Faculty Development Institute: October 14-16, 2008, in St. Louis, MO. (Please note the change in dates for the October 2008 institute, originally scheduled for October 8-10, 2008.) The deadline is May 26, 2008. Nurse educators interested in applying to attend the upcoming GNEC training Institute are encouraged to register early. For more information visit the GNEC Web site: www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/Hartford/GNEC.htm. Write
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