•Created online access to AMSN geriatric journal and newsletter publications, position statement, geriatric special interest group, and Nurse Competence in Aging Award
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nurses (AAACN) www.aaacn.org
•Developed geriatric competencies for ambulatory care nurses
•Offered two train-the-trainer sessions held at the 2004 AAACN annual conference
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation (AANP Foundation) in collaboration with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and the Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (FAANP) www.aanp.org
•Developed and distributed member preference survey
•Developed 6 continuing-education modules for non-geriatric nurse practitioners
American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) www.aacn.org
•Analyzed adult CCRN exam item pool to identify need for age-specific/dependent items
•Identified geriatric-specific content needs based on exam analysis, developed new test items, created pool of experts trained to submit age-specific questions for both the CCRN and PCCN exams
•Incorporated geriatric-specific items into the regular item pool for adult certification exam and identified source materials for exam preparation as they relate to the age-specific content needs
•Identified resource gaps, selected concurrent sessions for annual meeting, and created integrated geriatric content as an additional filter for the program-selection committee
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants (AALNC) www.aalnc.org
•Held a half-day session at the annual conference on forensic issues in the elderly
•Developed a contact hour CD-ROM recorded from the half-day session and distributed it to each of the 50 AALNC chapters, available for sale on AALNC Web site shortly
•Reviewed AALNC scope and standards to incorporate language specific to older adults
•Collected data on current geriatric-related knowledge gaps through pre- and post-questionnaires that will be published in a future issue of the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting
American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) www.aann.org
•Developed pre-conference workshop on management of aging neuroscience patients and promoted self-study of pre-conference workshop through CD-ROM
•Created geriatric special focus group
•Established a geriatric concurrent session track at the annual educational conference
•Developed the product Neurologic Assessment of the Older Adult: A Guide for Nurses
American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (AANA) www.aana.com
•Implemented a Competence in Aging Award recognizing outstanding work of CRNAs in the senior population
•Included research/educational session regarding anesthesia and the aging patient at an AANA meeting
•Provided a venue to present research specifically for the geriatric patient
•Awarded a grant in geriatric anesthesia considerations
American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators (AANAC) www.aanac.org
•Collected best practices from membership/business partners on assessment methods to ensure resident choice
•Developed training material for clinicians in LTC facilities on Best Practices: Culture Change and the Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI)
American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Nurses (AASCIN) www.aascin.org
•Created an Aging Issues committee
•Increased publication of aging-related articles in SCI Nursing
•Created and publicized an annual geriatric award and created a Best Article or Column award
•Offered aging-related sessions at AASCIN national conference
American College of Nurse Practitioners (ACNP) www.acnpweb.org
•Developed and offered a geriatric track (consisting of five geriatric sessions) at annual conference
•Appointed a board member to publish an article in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners summarizing the presentations in the geriatric track
•Posted geriatric track PowerPoint presentations from the clinical conference on the ACNP Web site
American Heart Association (AHA), Council of Cardiovascular Nursing (CVN) www.americanheart.org
•Developed online educational needs survey to prioritize geriatric activities
•Launched ANNA Spotlight on Older Adults section of ANNA Web site
•Provided access to ANNA resources including chronic kidney disease/long-term-care education program, publications, and Nurse Competence in Aging Award information
American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) www.aone.org
•Launched geriatric section on AONE Web site
•Provided access to AONE’s Guiding Principles for Creating Elder Friendly Hospitals
•Created a geriatric special interest group (SIG) with communication through listserv, quarterly newsletters, chat rooms on the AONE Web site with quarterly discussion topics, and SIG sessions at the AONE annual meeting
American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) www.apna.org
•Developed Web-based subspecialty program in geropsychiatry
•Endorsed American Association of Colleges of Nursing curriculum modules: Assessment and management of dementia/delirium related to older adults with complex care needs and Mental health issues in aging
•Offered geriatric sessions at Clinical Psychopharmacology Institute meetings and annual meetings, and provided late-life psychiatric disorder programs for chapter meetings
•Enhanced gero-psych council activities
American Radiological Nurses Association (ARNA)
•Established a geriatric special interest group
•Provided a general session dedicated to care of older adults at the 2006 conference
American Society for Pain Management Nursing (ASPMN) www.aspmn.org
•Formed a geriatric special interest group
•Published articles about pain management of the geriatric population in the American Journal of Nursing and in Pain Management Nursing
•Revised a self-directed learning module: Assessment of Pain in the Geriatric Patient
•Sponsored a keynote speaker and a general meeting regarding nursing management of pain in the geriatric population at a national conference
American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses (ASORN) www.asorn.org
•Assembled, distributed, and evaluated a portable kit containing resource manual, small group guide, audiotape sets, videotapes, central vision loss simulator, and low vision poster
•Offered didactic classes and hands-on training in aging at ASORN annual and chapter meetings/workshops
•Increased aging-related publications in ASORN journal, Insight, including a 4-part supplement, The Aging Retina
•Created an annual Nurse Competence in Aging award
American Society of Peri-Anesthesia Nurses (ASPAN) www.aspan.org
•Launched Geriatric Resource section of ASPAN Web site
•Included geriatrics in ASPAN national conference concurrent sessions and in the organization’s “On the Road” winter and spring seminar series since 2004
•Increased publications in Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, Breathline newsletter, and Specialty Practice Group newsletters
•Developed the ASPAN Geriatric Advanced Perianesthesia Competency in Pain and Comfort (GAPCPC) learning module
Asian American Pacific Islander Nurses Association (AAPINA) www.aapina.org
•Launched a “Gero Site” section of AAPINA Web site with access to professional geriatric resources, AAPINA’s Gero discussion group, and links to other resources
•Offered a geriatric workshop and students’ poster session at the annual conference
•Provided access to ANACdotes newsletter series on HIV and aging
•Developed HIV and older adults pre-conference session
•Developed four Web-based CE modules based on content from HIV and older adults pre-conference.
Association of PeriOperative Nurses (AORN) www.aorn.org
•Developed older-adult section of the AORN Web site
•Updated the age-specific competencies for the care of the elderly independent study through distribution of a needs-assessment survey and developed other needed resources
•Repurposed face-2-face events and posted on Web site
•Provided educational activities and networking opportunities at conferences and annual meetings
Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) www.awhonn.org
•Created association advisory panel to identify opportunities to incorporate information on health issues for older women into education materials, practice guidelines, news pieces, and nursing research
•Held sessions at annual meetings including Looking at the Changing Health Care Needs of Women 65 Years and Older
•Launched geriatric page on AWHONN Web site with access to position statements, clinical information, articles, and webcasts
•Developed and broadly disseminated Geriatric Emergency Nursing Education (GENE) course to members; it is available online for members and nonmembers at ENA’s Web site and as a face-to-face course at ENA’s annual conferences
•Developed position statement, Care of Older Adults in the Emergency Setting
•Developed and posted modules on HMA’s Web site including: Integrating Faith Community Nursing with Geriatric Care Management Goals and Interventions in Meeting the Health Goals of Older Persons and their Caregivers, Meeting the Special Needs of the Aging at End of Life, Negotiating Elder Care with Family Members, and Purposeful Aging
•Included geriatric workshops as ongoing presence in its national conferences
•Implemented a planning meeting to establish aging priorities for the association
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) www.hpna.org
•Launched geriatric section of HPNA Web site
•Provided Web access to geriatric special interest group, core curriculum, patient/family teaching, upcoming and archived geriatric-specific teleconferences
•Incorporated language about care of older adults into scope and standards document
•Developed geriatric chapter of the Core Curriculum for the Advanced Practice Hospice and Palliative Nurse
•Offered geriatric seminars at two annual congress meetings
•Increased and enhanced geriatric special interest group activities
•Reviewed competencies and incorporated geriatric topics/language where appropriate
•Provided one geriatric nurse certification scholarship
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP) www.napnap.org
•Conducted membership survey to evaluate members’ needs for resources concerning care of older adults
•Worked with the American Association of Retired People (AARP) to develop and distribute a brochure for grandparents who are raising grandchildren
•Developed grandparenting position statement work group
•Offered an educational session at annual meetings, Grandparents as Parents: Raising Grandchildren
National Black Nurses Association (NBNA) www.nbna.org
•Initiated an aging forum at NBNA annual conference as structure for aging activities
•Published 2 newsletters dedicated to aging issues
•Asked chapters to hold workshops on geriatrics using geriatric content on NBNA Web site
•Worked with strategic partners (100 Black Men of America and International Black Firefighters) to address health concerns impacting African-American men as they age
National Nursing Staff Development Organization (NNSDO) www.nnsdo.org
•Developed geriatric special interest group
•Offered concurrent sessions and half-day workshops on aging at national meetings
•Published It’s All About Caring, a series of 11 monographs addressing required topics of health care training for caregivers in long-term care
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) www.nonpf.com
•Incorporated relevant geriatric issues and content in the revised NP Curriculum Guidelines publication
•Established a Web-based resource center for NP faculty on NONPF Web site
•Offered pre-conference seminars focused on geriatric content topics for NP education
•Formed a geriatric special interest group
National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) www.nsna.org
•Launched geriatric section of NSNA Web site with access to educational and career resources for gerontological nursing and published geriatric content in NSNA publications
•Presented a panel of specialists in geriatric nursing at the 2005 and 2006 NSNA Mid-Year Conference to address geriatric topics
•Conducted workshops for students and faculty on a variety of topics including:
-What is it like to be old?
-Cross Cultural Communication and the Older Adult
-Including Care of the Elderly throughout the Curriculum
-The Greatest Generation—Caring for Yesterday’s Heroes
-Update—Nurse Competence in Aging
•Awarded scholarships to undergraduate nursing students interested in geriatric nursing
•Launched geriatric resource section of PNAA Web site with access to PNAA geriatric publications including the geriatric/gerontology section and a special geriatric issue of the PNAA newsletter, Philippine American Nurse
•Created a geriatric/gerontology interest group
•Disseminated geriatric/gerontology information through national, regional, and local PNAA conferences in the form of presentations, workshops, and poster sessions
•Created a PNAA Foundation Geriatric/Gerontology Fellowship Award
Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA) www.pcna.net
•Launched geriatric nursing section of PCNA Web site, accessed through homepage
•Developed and distributed Get Tough on Angina (GTOA) patient brochure in English and Spanish; presented Get Tough on Angina program to health care professionals at more than 20 national meetings including the PCNA, American Heart Association, and American College of Cardiology annual meetings
•Included information on prevention of CVD in the elderly as part of regularly featured prevention column in the Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing (JCN)
•Published a 40-page journal supplement to JCN focusing on primary and secondary prevention of CVD and stroke with emphasis on aging
•Published 3 items/articles related to resources for grandparents raising grandchildren in the SPN News
•Increased geriatric presence at the annual conference including a roundtable discussion on Intergenerational Families and Family Centered Care Issues and offered 3 research presentations related to grandparenting at the last 3 annual conferences
•Enhanced access to geriatric-related resources on SPN Web site
Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA) www.suna.org
•Increased geriatric content in association publications
•Created a Urologic Nursing/Nurse Competence in Aging Writer’s Award
Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN) www.wocn.org
•Offered plenary sessions on geriatric nursing issues at the WOCN 2006 and 2007 annual congresses
•Provided links from WOCN Web site to geriatric resources including Hartford Institute Web site
•Invited members to join geriatric special interest group
•Created a Nurse Competence in Aging award for members who have demonstrated outstanding commitment to care for older adults
Nurse Competence in Aging Resource Organizations
American Academy of Nursing Expert Panels on Acute and Critical Care, Aging, and Quality (AAN) www.aannet.org
•Developed consensus statement on strategies to reduce deterioration in hospitalized elders based on literature synthesis, review, and critique, including recommendations for practice, research, education, and policy
•Developed a unique 4-lesson program on vision loss in older adults
•Lessons include information on vision screening and assessment tools
•Interactive screens illustrate environmental modifications that increase “visibility” for people with vision impairment
•Course provides sources for vision rehabilitation resources and services
National Conference of Gerontological Nurse Practitioners (NCGNP) www.ncgnp.org
•Developed a comprehensive toolkit, Assessing and Managing Mental Health Changes in Older Adults, to be used by nurses in a variety of clinical areas, available on NCGNP Web site
National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA) www.ngna.org
•Conducted activities to increase the number of nurses certified in gerontological nursing, including convening focus groups to identify motivation and barriers to seeking certification, publishing articles in newsletters and journal on benefits of certification, promoting use of online NCA resources and certification preparation course, and conducting certification preparation workshops at NGNA’s annual meeting
•Provided consultation to specialty associations to incorporate language about care of older adults into scope and standards documents and collaborated with various associations to include gerontological content in their publications and meetings
•Provided technical review and endorsement of the publication “Preparing Nursing Students to Care for Older Adults: Enhancing Gerontology in Senior-level Undergraduate Courses” for the Geriatric Nursing Education Faculty Development Institutes
•Participated on the advisory committee for the How to Try This Project, a collaborative project of The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing and the American Journal of Nursing, which is providing resources to build knowledge and assessment skills among those caring for older adults
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