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5, Issue 9
May 27, 2008 Welcome
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1. 2008 BAGNC Scholars & Fellows Selected 2. Awards for Excellence in Gerontological Nursing Education: It's Not Too Late to Apply! 3. Funding Opportunities: Scholarships & Fellowships 4. Opportunities, Resources & Tools 5. HCGNE News 6. Announcements 7. Link of the Month: Innovative Care Delivery Models 1. 2008 BAGNC Scholars & Fellows Selected
The American Academy of Nursing has selected the latest cohort of fellows and scholars in academic geriatric nursing.Ten Claire M. Fagin postdoctoral Fellows will each receive $60,000 per year for two years to support advanced research training, mentorship, leadership, and career development. Fifteen predoctoral Scholars will receive a scholarship covering tuition and fees of up to $50,000 per year for two years to support their doctoral training and launch careers in academic geriatric nursing. This year's awards come on the heels of a new report from the Institute of Medicine, "Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Work Force" (www.iom.edu/CMS/3809/40113/53452.aspx). The report argues that the health care workforce lacks both the size and the skill to care for the growing older population and its unique needs. There are not enough geriatric specialists, and generalists do not have enough training and experience to properly treat older patients. The report recommends increasing the recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and improving all health professionals' ability to deliver high quality geriatric care. "With regard to nursing," notes Pat Archbold, BAGNC Program Director, "these are both critical objectives; our BAGNC program prepares expert gerontological faculty who will teach the next generation of geriatric nursing specialists and enhance the geriatric preparation of nurse generalists." For information on the Hartford Foundation's response to the report, visit: www.jhartfound.org/v4i4_special.htm. The 2009-2011 Claire M. Fagin Fellows are: Lyda Arevalo, PhD, MSN, RN University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Eric Collier, PhD, RN, MS University of California, San Francisco Cheryl Dennison, PhD, RN, ANP Johns Hopkins University Leanne Lefler, PhD, APN, CCRN University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences LuAnn Nowak, MSN, RN (PhD to be completed in August) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lorraine Phillips, PhD, APRN, BC, FNP University of Missouri, Columbia Karen Rose, PhD, RN University of Virginia Tara Sharpp, PhD, RN Oregon Health & Science University Kristine Talley, PhD, MS, RN, APRN-BC University of Minnesota Hye A. Yeom, PhD, RN Arizona State University The 2009-2011 Predoctoral Scholars are: Brianne Black, BSN* University of Iowa Heide Bursch, BSN, MSN University of Iowa Grace Campbell, BSN, MSW, CRRN, CBIS University of Pittsburgh Mary Dierich, RN, MSN, C-GNP University of Minnesota Victoria Foster, MSN, RN Georgia State University Haesook Kim, MSN, RN University of California, Los Angeles Melanie Krause, MS, RN University of Wisconsin, Madison Kari Lane, RN, MSN, MOT University of Iowa Jeongok Park, MSN, RN University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Jimmy Reyes, BSN University of Iowa Carol Rogers, RN, MSN, APRN, BC, CNOR Arizona State University Krista Sifford, MSN, APRN, BC, CNS University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Allison Terwilliger, RN, MPH Oregon Health & Science University Mark Toles, RN, MSN Duke University Yi Yan, RN, BSN Oregon Health & Science University * Mayday Fund recipient 2. Awards for Excellence in Gerontological Nursing Education: It's Not Too Late to Apply!
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing, in collaboration with The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, is now accepting applications for the annual Awards for Excellence in Gerontological Nursing Education. Schools and programs of nursing that offer baccalaureate or graduate degrees and demonstrate a strong commitment to geriatric nursing are encouraged to apply. Applicant programs may be large or small, new, or well-established. One entry per award category per school. The following are the four NEW award categories: We encourage you to take this opportunity to recognize your good work! Nominate your school now! The 2008 Awards announcement and application, due May 31, 2008, are located at: www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/Hartford/pdf/AwardApp.pdf 3. Funding Opportunities: Scholarships & Fellowships
NEW! Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies and administered by Columbia University, the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program seeks to provide professionals in health and aging with the experience and skills necessary to make a positive contribution to the development and implementation of health policies that affect older Americans. The program offers two different tracks for individual placement: a residential track that includes a 9-to-12-month placement in Washington, DC, or at a state agency (as a legislative assistant in Congress, a professional staff member in an executive agency, or in a policy organization); and a nonresidential track that includes a health policy project and brief placement(s) throughout the year at relevant sites. Core program components focused on career development and professional enrichment are provided for fellows in both tracks. The program is open to physicians, nurses, and social workers at all career stages (early, middle, and late), with a demonstrated commitment to health and aging issues and a desire to be involved in health policy at the federal, state, or local level. Other professionals with clinical backgrounds (e.g., pharmacists, dentists, clinical psychologists) working in the field of health and aging are also eligible to apply. Under special circumstances, exceptions may be made for non-clinicians who are in positions that can impact health policy for older Americans at a clinical level. For further information, please visit the Web site at: www.healthandagingpolicy.org or contact Phuong Huynh, Deputy Director of the program, at: huynhpt@pi.cpmc.columbia.edu or 212.543.6213. 4. Opportunities, Resources & Tools
AACN Faculty Training: Enhancing Gerontology Content in Baccalaureate Courses "We are extremely grateful for the opportunity we had to be pioneer participants in the GNEC Training Institute. The institute was absolutely amazing. The carefully selected speakers were impressive. We are excited to put into action the direction you have given us." -Donna F. Richards, PhD, RN, and Valerie Flattes, RN, GNP, University of Utah In recognition of the need for faculty development in geriatrics, AACN invites faculty to attend one of the upcoming Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium (GNEC) faculty training institutes. GNEC is an innovative national initiative to enhance geriatric content in senior-level baccalaureate courses. GNEC focuses on faculty development as a necessary precursor to successfully implementing and sustaining enhancements in nursing education programs. This institute 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, nursing faculty are prepared to lead their colleagues in "gerontologizing" senior-level curricula as well as teaching and mentoring students in the care of older adults. GNEC has now held three of the six scheduled training institutes. AACN is well on its way to achieving its objective to educate faculty at a majority of the baccalaureate schools of nursing across the country—415 faculty representing 231 schools of nursing from 44 states have been trained thus far. The remaining three institutes are scheduled for October 14–16, 2008, in St. Louis, MO, April 1–3, 2009, in San Diego, CA, and June 24–26, 2009, in Philadelphia, PA. The application deadline for the St. Louis Institute has been extended to June 30, 2008. Thanks to the generous funding by the Hartford Foundation, there is no registration fee or tuition for these institutes. Up to two applicants per baccalaureate school of nursing are eligible for a stipend to help defer travel expenses. For more information or to apply, see: www.aacn.nche.edu/gnec.htm . Attention Hartford Creating Careers Scholarship Graduates The American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the John A. Hartford Foundation are hosting a Creating Careers Networking Event at the National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners' Annual Meeting this September in St. Louis. This session, designed exclusively for Hartford Creating Careers graduates, will focus on development of the APN role to its fullest extent. It will be didactic, interactive, and social. We encourage you to attend! Event information: Hartford Creating Careers Networking Event, NCGNP Annual Meeting, Hilton St. Louis at the Ball Park, Wednesday, September 24th, 2008, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. You must be a member of NCGNP to attend the conference. If you are interested in becoming a member of NCGNP and/or need more information about the organization and its annual conference, visit: www.ncgnp.org. Please respond to Debbie Latimer at dlatimer@aacn.nche.edu if you are interested in attending the event. Scholar in Residence Program The American Academy of Nursing is now accepting applications for the IOM/ANF/AAN Scholar in Residence Program supported by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN) and the American Nurses Foundation (ANF), in partnership with the Institute of Medicine. The program, designed as an immersion experience to facilitate nurse leaders engaging in a prominent role in health policy development at the national level, provides a year-long leadership opportunity in health policy at the Institute of Medicine (IOM), The National Academies. The application deadline is June 15, 2008. For more information about the program, please visit: www.aannet.org/i4a/pages/Index.cfm?pageID=3496. Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Home Campaign Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes is a voluntary campaign founded in 2006. It is designed and managed by a steering committee made up of a coalition of 28 organizations, including the Hartford Institute and the AAN. These national organizations represent providers, professionals, consumers, workers, regulators, and funders. After eighteen months, 6,800 of 42.3% of the nations' 16,000 nursing homes have joined the campaign. Preliminary data show that nursing homes participating in the campaign are outperforming non-participants in the four clinical goals. Webinars on acute and chronic pain and pressure ulcers reached about 8,000 nursing home staff across the country. The next webinar is about one of the four process goals, consistent assignment, on June 3rd, 2008, 2:00-3:30 pm EST. Log on to: www.directeventreg.com/registration/event/44387623 to register for the conference. "How To Try This" from the American Journal of Nursing How to Try This: Evaluating Sleep Quality in Older Adults Carole A. Smyth, MSN, ANP-GNP, APRN,BC Inadequate sleep-sleep of poor quality or insufficient duration or both-has been linked to health problems ranging from cognitive impairment to compromised immunity. Insomnia occurs more frequently after age 70, and more than half of adults ages 65 and older report at least one chronic sleep complaint. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is easily used to assess the quality and patterns of sleep in older adults. It consists of 18 questions covering seven areas in which sleep problems occur and can be completed in about 10 minutes. For a free online video demonstrating the use of this index, go to: links.lww.com/A261. 5.
HCGNE News
Save the Date The Penn State School of Nursing Fall Research Institute, "New Frontiers in Nursing Science: Harnessing Vulnerability" will be held at the University Park campus in State College, PA, on September 1-13, 2008. For more information, please go to the Penn State HCGNE Web site at: www.hhdev.psu.edu/hartford. Awards News from University of Utah HCGNE The Ray and Tye Noorda Foundation has presented a gift of $500,000 to the University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence as an investment in the future of geriatric nursing. This gift was presented in recognition of the quality of care Ray Noorda received during his struggle with Alzheimer's, and the family's realization of the need for well-prepared faculty and geriatric nurses. The donation will be used for UU HCGNE student scholarships at all levels of geriatric education: PhD, DNP, Masters, and RN-BS. For more information on the University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence visit: nursing.utah.edu/hartford/index.html. Since 2003, the University of Utah College of Nursing has offered a Geriatric Nursing Leadership (GNL) specialty track in the online RN-BS program. The program, designed to improve geriatric nursing care, is innovative in its outcome of universally recognized credentials (a baccalaureate degree and/or preparation for national certification), targeting educational parity of nursing leadership. The Geriatric Nursing Leadership Program will now be offered under the auspices of the University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence. The on-line GNL program will be available to nurses throughout the country, and nurses will be able to select from the RN-BS program, or a certificate option. For more information on the Geriatric Nursing Leadership program, visit: nursing.utah.edu/hartford/GNL/index.html. 6. Announcements Hartford Institute Receives Grant to Look at Nurses and Long-term Care Culture Change The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing received a grant of $40,000 from the Commonwealth Fund for a project titled, "Nurses' Involvement in Culture Change: Opportunity for Improving Resident Quality of Care & Quality of Life." This six-month project, in collaboration with the Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations (CGNO) and the Pioneer Network, will convene an expert panel of leaders in culture change and in gerontological nursing for a 1½ day conference to: The white paper will become the basis for infusing and supporting culture change throughout geriatric nursing. The conference participants will include Pioneer leaders, representatives from CGNO, HCGNE Nursing Home Collaborative, GSA Nursing Administration Research Interest Group, nursing home clinical and management leaders, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of culture change, several clinical professional groups will be invited as observers. Commonwealth Fund Webinar on Culture Change On May 19th, 2008, the Commonwealth Fund sponsored a Webinar titled, "Culture Change in the Nursing Home: How Far Have We Come?" The one-hour presentation was introduced by Mary Jane Koren, MD, MPH, Assistant Vice President of the Commonwealth Fund. She summarized the 15 years of work since the inception of the Pioneer Network. For the recording and PowerPoint presentations from the Webinar, go to: www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=684709. Hartford Institute Launches eNewsletter The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing recently launched a monthly eNewsletter featuring articles, reference materials, useful links, and other best practice information on the care of older adults. To sign up for this resource please visit: consultgerirn.org/resources/enews/. 2008 Hartford Geriatric Social Work Fellows and Scholars Announced The Gerontological Society of America has chosen its latest cohort of Hartford Geriatric Social Work Doctoral Fellows and Faculty Scholars. To read more about these awards, please visit the GSWI Web site via the links below: Doctoral Fellows: www.geron.org/press/fellowsmay08.htm Faculty Scholars: www.geron.org/press/2008facultyscholars.htm 7. Link of the Month: Innovative Care Delivery Models Health Workforce Solutions LLC (HWS), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), has just launched the Innovative Care Delivery Models Web site, www.innovativecaremodels.com, to showcase 24 innovative models of health care delivery that are cost effective, sustainable, and, most important, replicable in a wide array of healthcare settings. Hartford Foundation funded programs are included. For more information on the project, send an email to: cdm@healthws.com. Write
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