Integrating Gerontological Content Into Advanced Practice Nursing Education

This is a valuable and timely resource as primary care practitioners are facing a growing aging population. Advanced practice nurses have always been swift to recognize and respond to healthcare challenges, and this resource allows them to be proactive in confronting this evolving healthcare crisis. Nursing faculty can use this resource to design and implement program changes that will help to arm advanced practice nurses with strong gerontological competencies. Score: 100, 5 stars

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Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award for 2010!

This small book couldn?t be more timely. As directors of advanced practice nursing (APN) programs struggle to find resources to convert their existing adult APN tracks into adult?gerontology programs, this book offers a clear path for integrating critical content throughout an entire program. For graduate clinical nursing directors who are challenged to quickly ramp up their gerontology content?often without having clinical geriatrics specialty experts among their own faculty?this book will definitely provide that expertise.

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This book presents nursing faculty with clear, user-friendly guidelines for incorporating gerontological content into existing non-gerontological Advanced Practice Nursing (APN) programs without requiring major curricular changes.

With almost 50 years of combined experience, the authors share a wealth of knowledge and expertise regarding the rationale and strategies for integrating gerontological content into APN curricula. Topics includes health policy, myths of aging, assessment of functional status, normal versus pathological changes in aging, and more. The authors present strategies to integrate blended technology and multiple resources to ensure that students gain gerontological competency.

Key topics:

• The impact of aging America on advanced practice nursing
• Gerontologizing clinical management courses and shaping the clinical experience
• Strategies for integrating geriatric e-learning materials into APN curricula
• Evaluation methods for integrating new content into graduate nursing core, APN core, and specialty courses
  

Complete with detailed lists of print media and Internet resources, this book is a must-have for APN faculty across a number of non-gerontological specialty areas, including family, adult, acute, holistic, palliative, and pediatric care.

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Carolyn Auerhahn, EdD, ANP, GNP-BC, FANNP, is a Clinical Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Geriatric and Adult Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Programs at New York University, College of Nursing. She also serves as the Associate Director and Director for Advanced Practice Initiatives at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, also at NYU College of Nursing. Carolyn has been an ANP and a GNP for over 25 years. She has been actively engaged in the teaching of nurse practitioner students for more than 20 years and, prior to joining the faculty at NYU, held academic positions at Yale University School of Nursing and Columbia University School of Nursing. She received her Diploma in Nursing from the Bellevue School of Nursing in 1966, her BS (Nursing) from Pace University Leinhard School of Nursing in 1979, and her MS as an ANP from Columbia University School of Nursing in 1981. In 1996, she received an EdD in Health Education from Teachers College, also at Columbia University. In her clinical practice Carolyn has introduced the NP role in places where it was unknown and "paved the way" for other NPs, pioneered new and evolving aspects of the role, and brought national attention to the NP. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in 2006.

Laurie Kennedy-Malone, PhD, GNP-BC, FAANP, FAGHE, is a Professor and Director of the Adult/Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Laurie has been a certified gerontological nurse practitioner for over 25 years. She received her BSN in nursing and sociology from Worcester State College, Worcester MA in 1981 and her master's degree as a gerontological nurse practitioner from The University of Lowell in MA in 1982. She received her PhD in Nursing from The University of Texas in Austin in 1990. She has received numerous grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration for the nurse practitioner program at UNCG. She was one of the recipients of the John H. Hartford and AACN Geriatric Nursing Education Project: Enhancing Gerontological/Geriatric Nursing for Advanced Practice Nursing Program. She is one of the authors of Management Guidelines for Nurse Practitioner working with Older Adults published by FA Davis.