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6, Issue 1
September 29, 2008 Welcome
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1. Annual GSA Meeting 2. Funding Opportunities: Scholarships & Fellowships 3. Opportunities, Resources & Tools 4. HCGNE News 5. Announcements 6. Links of the Month: Blogs of Interest 1. Annual GSA Meeting
The Gerontological Society of America's (GSA) 61st Annual Scientific Meeting will take place November 21-25, 2008, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland (just outside of Washington, DC). The theme of the GSA meeting is: Resilience in an Aging Society: Risks and Opportunities. To learn more about the GSA conference, visit: www.agingconference.com. Details about nursing events taking place at the meeting will be available in the October and November issues of New Directions.2. Funding Opportunities: Scholarships & Fellowships
Join a Network of Excellence-Apply for a BAGNC Academic Scholarship or Research Fellowship Award Today Are you interested in advancing your academic career? Looking for additional research time? With a scholarship or fellowship from the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity program, you can do both. In addition, you'll have multiple opportunities to participate in leadership development activities, including the annual HGNI Leadership Conference. "By being able to reduce my teaching responsibilities while in a tenure track position, I was able to spend two incredible years focusing on my research, with guidance and advice from my program mentors, both of whom are leading experts in their respective fields." -Howard Karl Butcher, PhD, RN, APRN, BC, Fellowship Award Recipient BAGNC is seeking outstanding applicants who are committed to a career in academic geriatric nursing. Applications for the 2009 BAGNC Scholarships (up to $100,000) and Claire M. Fagin Fellowships (up to $120,000) are available online. Applications are due January 14, 2009. Please go to: www.geriatricnursing.org/applications for information about these awards, the application criteria and link to the online application. To read additional comments from former program recipients, visit: www.geriatricnursing.org/scholars-fellows/testimonials.asp. The Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship The Brookdale Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2009 Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellowship Program. The Fellowship, which is open to all professionals in the field of aging, was created by the Foundation to encourage emerging leaders in the field of aging. The award is a two-year grant paid to the candidate's sponsoring institution in support of the candidate's research project. A grant award of up to $125,000 each year is intended to cover 75% of the Fellow's time, base salary, and fringe benefits. The deadline for applications is November 6, 2008. For more information and to access the on-line application, please go to the Foundation's Web site: www.brookdalefoundation.org. Department of Veterans Affairs Fellowship The Department of Veterans Affairs offers an Interprofessional Fellowship in Patient Safety. The purpose of this one-year fellowship is to develop leaders with vision, knowledge, and commitment to lead patient safety efforts in the 21st century. The fellowship is open to all disciplines, and is located at the VISN 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry at the Tampa VA Hospital in Tampa, FL. Applications are due February 1, 2009 for the July 1, 2009 start date. For more information, visit: www.visn8.med.va.gov/patientsafetycenter or contact Dr. Gail Powell-Cope at Gail.Powell-Cope@va.gov or 813.558.3911, or Dr. Tatjana Bulat at Tatjana.bulat@va.gov or 813.558.3923. 3. Opportunities, Resources & Tools
State-of-the-Art Faculty Development Institutes-Only Two Remaining! Join the more than 500 nurse educators nationwide who have already attended a faculty training institute offered by the Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium (GNEC). Administered by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, GNEC institutes provide educators with the skills and state-of-the-art resources needed to imbed best geriatric nursing practices in senior-level baccalaureate courses. "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 This professional development opportunity brings many benefits: The two remaining GNEC institutes are scheduled for April 1-3, 2009, in San Diego and June 24-26, 2009, in Philadelphia. Since the first four GNEC institutes sold out quickly, early registration is encouraged. Don't delay, get this on your calendar now! For more information or to apply, see: www.aacn.nche.edu/gnec.htm. Hartford Institute Protocols Posted on Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Web Site: National Guidelines Clearinghouse The Hartford Institute's evidence-based protocols are now posted on the AHRQ NGC Web site. These protocols are part of the book Evidence-based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice, 3rd edition, editors Elizabeth Capezuti, DeAnne Zwicker, Mathy Mezey, and Terry Fulmer, published by Springer Publishing Company in 2008. The protocols were developed by national experts, including those who are part of the HGNI, by systematically evaluating and rating the best available evidence . To view the protocols, go to www.guideline.gov/whatsnew/whatsnew_GuidelineIndex.aspx and scroll down to the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. New Nursing Continuing Education Web Portal from Penn State The Penn State HCGNE, the Penn State School of Nursing, and Penn State Outreach have developed a Web portal that will make it easier for registered nurses working in hospitals, home healthcare nurses, school nurses, and other nursing professionals to complete nursing certificate programs or fulfill their continuing education requirements. The new portal offers courses that supply nurses and nurse educators with the most relevant, up-to-date information on topics related to their field. To introduce the new portal, the Penn State HCGNE will offer the first course at no charge. The course, Research Applications: Delivering Mouth Care to Persons with Dementia, was developed by Hartford Center faculty member Rita Jablonski, PhD, RN, ANP, and instructs participants on the best methods for providing mouth care to patients. Application of the Need-Driven Dementia-Compromised Behavior Model is also discussed. The continuing education program is now available at: www.hhdev.psu.edu/hartford/ceu.html. Partners Investing in Nursing's Future Grants Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing has been selected to receive funding from Northwest Health Foundation-Robert Wood Johnson's Partners Investing in Nursing's Future program. The university, in partnership with The Dimmer Family Foundation, the Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation, the Bruce W. Gilpin Memorial Foundation and other partners, aims to help tackle the regional nursing crisis and give nursing students new competencies in geriatric care. Rebecca Scobee, a 2007-2009 BAGNC Predoctoral Scholar, has been recruited to work on the project. Partners Investing in Nursing's Future is currently seeking proposals for a fourth round of partnerships. Two-year grants of up to $250,000 each will be awarded in September 2009, with partnerships matching their awards with at least $1 for every $1 provided. The Partners Investing in Nursing's Future call for proposals is available at: www.PartnersInNursing.org. Brief proposals are due by October 2, 2008. NIH Consensus Development Conference: Management of Hepatitis B October 20-22, 2008 Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) National Institutes of Health 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892 To examine important issues around management of Hepatitis B, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and Office of Medical Applications of Research of the National Institutes of Health, will convene a Consensus Development Conference October 20-22, 2008. For more information, visit: consensus.nih.gov/2008/2008HepatitisBCDC120main.htm. "How To Try This" from the American Journal of Nursing How to Try This: The Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia Scale: Determining how much help people with dementia need at mealtime Ruth Stockdell MSN, RN, FNP-BC Elaine J. Amella PhD, GNP-BC, FAAN The Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia scale is an 11-item instrument developed to assess eating and feeding problems in people with late-stage dementia. By looking for certain behaviors-spilling food while eating or turning the head when prompted to eat, for example-a nurse can predict a patient's needs and build an effective care plan. The scale takes as little as five minutes to complete. Watch an online video demonstrating the use of the scale at: links.lww.com/A281. How to Try This: The Hospital Admission Risk Profile Carla L. Graf, MS, RN, CNS-BC Older adults are at risk for losing functional ability during and after a hospitalization. It's often difficult to determine which patients are at highest risk and which might benefit from targeted interventions. The Hospital Admission Risk Profile, a simple screening tool, can be used to classify hospitalized older adults as being at low, intermediate, or high risk for losing the ability to perform activities of daily living, based on assessments of age, cognitive function, and the ability to perform independent activities of daily living. For a free online video demonstrating the use of this tool, go to: links.lww.com/A286. Newly Published Articles from the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing Mezey, M., Mitty, E., Burger, S. (2008). Health Care Professional Training: A Comparison of Geriatric Competencies Across Disciplines. The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56 (9), 1724-1729. Boltz, M., Capezuti, E., Bowar-Ferres, S., Norman, R., Secic, M., Kim, H., Fairchild, S., Mezey, M., Fulmer, T. (2008). Hospital Nurses' Perception of the Geriatric Nurse Practice Environment. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 40(3), 282-289. For additional information, please contact: Hartford.IGN@nyu.edu. New Nursing Assistant Web Tables Released The Division of Health Care Statistics (DHCS) of the National Center for Health Statistics announced the Internet release of the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Web Tables from data collected in the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS). The National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS) is the first national study of nursing assistants working in nursing facilities in the United States. The National Nursing Assistant Survey was conducted as a telephone interview with a sample of workers who provide nursing home residents with assistance in activities of daily living (ADLs). The survey included information on whether workers plan to continue working in their present positions and what factors affect their decisions, including job satisfaction, nature of the work environment, training, advancement opportunities, benefits, working conditions, and personal or family demands. To view or download the 2004 NNAS Web tables please visit the NNHS Web site at: www.cdc.gov/nchs/nnhs.htm. Under "Data Highlights," you can access the NNAS Web tables by clicking on 2004-2005 nursing assistant tables. There are 50 nursing assistant data tables and they are categorized into six groups: Demographics and Career Decisions; Work Experience and Training; Pay and Benefits; Work Environment; Home Environment; Injuries and Vaccinations. 4.
HCGNE News
Awards & Achievements Save the Date The University of North Carolina is hosting a conference titled "Connecting the Dots: Geriatric Nursing, Education, and Clinical Simulation," on April 2-3 2009. For more information please see: nursing.unc.edu/connectingthedots. 5. Announcements Hartford Institute Launches New Web Site The Hartford Institute is launching its new, revised Web site- www.HartfordIGN.org-as a portal for geriatric nursing resources. We invite all programs to forward new geriatric nursing products or programs to be highlighted on the site. Please forward submissions to Malvina Kluger at mk17@nyu.edu. New Nursing Grants from The Hartford Foundation The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded a grant to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) to develop national aging-focused competency requirements and curricular recommendations for a new model of master's-level nursing education that will combine two traditionally distinct areas of study in adult care and gerontology. The combined Adult/Gerontology Advanced Practice Registered Nurse education model will ensure that an increased number of nurses are prepared to care for the country's rapidly growing older adult population. This work builds on a prior Foundation grant to the AACN to increase the number of advanced practice nurses specializing in gerontology. For more information about the AACN's work in geriatric nursing, please visit: www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/Hartford/index.htm. The Foundation has also awarded a grant to the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) to improve the health of older adults receiving home health care services by expanding the Curricula for Homecare Advances in Management and Practice (CHAMP) program. This effort will enhance the geriatric competence of frontline nurse managers and clinicians across 600 leading home care agencies across the country. This work builds on a prior Hartford Foundation grant to the VNSNY to work with national leaders in establishing the first national guidelines on geriatric home care best practice, and on a grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies to the VNSNY to establish the CHAMP program, the first national training initiative to improve the quality of geriatric home health care services. For more information about VNSNY's CHAMP program, please visit: champ-program.org/HTML/about_champ.html. To learn about the other nursing programs funded by the Hartford Foundation, see the HGNI Program Descriptions at: www.hgni.org. 6. Links of the Month: Blogs of Interest As blogs become increasingly popular vehicles by which to disseminate information, we thought we'd point out two that might be of particular interest to New Directions readers. "Nurses' Notes" is a blog that covers nursing and looks at the issues facing the field today. Marijke Vroomen-Durning serves as the main contact for this blog. For more information, visit: www.mdnglive.com/blogs/rnnotes. The New Old Age is a blog sponsored by The New York Times and written by Jane Gross. It focuses on the challenges faced by adults over 80 (the fastest growing segment of the population) and their adult children, who are the primary caregivers and decision-makers for their aging parents. While written from a consumer perspective, the blog has covered topics quite relevant to your work, and is likely to continue doing so.. We encourage you to bookmark this blog or tag it to be sent to your mailbox. You should also consider posting responses as relevant to your work, or just to share your opinion and expertise. If you have ideas for topics, you can contact Ms. Gross at newoldage@nytimes.com. Write
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