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GERIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE

Geriatric Emergency Nursing Education (GENE)

Learn to improve practice and health outcomes in the care of older adults. Click HERE for more information on GENE Online!

Making the Link, a program of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) in cooperation with ENA, makes it easy for you to help family caregivers of older adults. For further information, go to http://www.n4a.org/makingthelink.cfm

Have you heard about NICHE? Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders (NICHE) is a program at the John A. Hartford Foundation, Institute for Geriatric Nursing that "systematically benefits staff, patients, and health systems. Materials and services stimulate and support improved geriatric nursing care.
You can obtain more information about NICHE by visiting the following Web site:
http://www.hartfordign.org/programs/niche/conference.html

ConsultGeriRN
ConsultGeriRN is a comprehensive website providing current best practice information on care of older adults. ConsultGeriRN features:

Geriatric nursing content by topics and patient signs/symptoms
Geriatric nursing evidence-based protocols
Try This Assessment tool series and "how to" Try This series (videos that demonstrate how to conduct specific older adult assessments)
Information on gerontological certification
Information on NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders)
Career Information

For more information, visit www.ConsultGeriRN.org

Nurse Competence in Aging - Top 10 List of Geriatric Best Practice Resources - Viewable Onine or Printable

The Gerontological Nurse Certification Review course examines the fundamental knowledge about care of the older adult that the registered nurse must master to be certified as a Gerontolgical Nurse by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association. The content and emphasis of the course correspond to that of the examination as outlined by ANCC. The course offers a summary of key clinical information and issues central to caring for the highly specialized needs of older adults.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nyu.edu/education/nursing/hartford.institute/course/

ANA announces the awarding of the first 12 Nurse Competence in Aging grants http://nursingworld.org/pressrel/2003/pr0715.htm