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New Directions: The e-newsletter of the Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative | |
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1, Issue 1
March 1, 2004 Welcome
to New Directions, a publication of the Hartford Geriatric
Nursing Initiative (HGNI). This e-newsletter is designed to
inform interested academic and practice leaders, faculty members,
students, practitioners and others about the work of the HGNI and
provide the latest news and information relevant to geriatric nursing.
As many of you know, the HGNI is preparing professional nurses to play leadership roles in improving the health of older adults. In partnership with the nation's nursing schools and a variety of health care organizations and systems, this dynamic, national Initiative, supported through a $34 million investment from the John A. Hartford Foundation, works in five areas, including: We are proud to represent this critically needed effort, which is involving the nation's top nurses—including you—in making a difference in the health care of our nation's older adults. If you would like more contact information about, and links to all of the programs of the HGNI, please see the HGNI's Evaluation Web site at www.geriatricnursing.info. In
this Issue
1. Bush Budget Boosts Nursing Recruitment and Retention 2. HGNI "Brand" Now Available 3. Meeting Announcements 4. Tools, Resources and Opportunities 5. HGNI People 6. Hartford Foundation Hires New Grants Manager 7. HGNI Link of the Month: CAAR Report 1.
Bush Budget Boosts Nursing Recruitment and Retention
In his fiscal year (FY) 2005 budget submitted to Congress on Feb. 2, President Bush proposed increased funding for several programs designed to enhance the recruitment and retention of nurses. The President's budget provides $147 million for nursing workforce development programs including the Nurse Reinvestment Act. That figure represents an increase of more than $5 million over the 2004 funding level. However, while a step in the right direction, this amount is likely insufficient to address the increasing nursing shortage. The American Nurses Association (ANA) along with several other nursing organizations has requested $205 million for the nursing workforce development programs of Title VIII of the Public Health Service Act. The President's FY 2005 budget proposal includes $32 million for loan repayments and scholarships (an increase of more than $5 million over last year); $21 million for nursing diversity programs (a nearly $5 million increase); $8 million for geriatric nurse education and nurse faculty loan-repayment programs; and $139 million for the National Institute of Nursing Research (a $4 million increase). Check future issues of New Directions to keep up to date with this and other federal legislation that affects nursing and geriatrics. 2.
HGNI "Brand" Now Available
Like the look of the HGNI logo and this newsletter? Now you can use the new graphic identity developed for the HGNI on your print materials, Web sites and PowerPoint presentations. Click here to see the design guidelines for using this new brand, as well as several versions of the logo and a variety of helpful templates, including two PowerPoint slides that you can adapt for your next presentation. Using these graphics is not only a good way to freshen up your communications, it is an important tool for the HGNI, a way of demonstrating that all of our good work providing leadership to improve the health of older adults is part of a larger national movement. 3.
Meeting Announcements
The American Heart Association and the National Council on Patient Education and Information (NCPEI), along with several other organizations, including the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association, is co-sponsoring the 2nd Scientific Conference on Compliance in Healthcare and Research. It will be held at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, DC, May 17-19, 2004. This two-and-one-half-day conference will feature experts speaking on: The target audience includes nurses, physicians, pharmacists, health practitioners, researchers, administrators and industry representatives. Click here for the conference Web site. The University of Michigan 57th Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques is scheduled for June 7-30, 2004. For further information, click here. The American Nurses Association's Bi-Annual Convention is scheduled for June 26-29, 2004 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is co-sponsored by The Minnesota Nurses Association. For further information, click here. ANA's newly funded Nurse Competence in Aging Program will be featured during this convention, and the HGNI will be there! The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing and the American Journal of Nursing will conduct their annual Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars Program, July 12-16, 2004 at New York University. Topics include: Building Significant Programs of Research, Challenges in Research Design, and Measurement Issues. Participants will work on refining their own programs of research and will present issues to the group for analysis and feedback. Nationally recognized seminar faculty come from partnering universities and national geriatric and nursing organizations. For more information, click here. The University of Arkansas Medical Sciences will host a Geriatric Nursing Program Proposal Development Workshop August 2—6, 2004. For information, contact Sandie Lubin at: lubinSandrA@uams.edu. 4.
New Tools, Resources and Opportunities
The Nurse Competence in Aging project of ANA, of which the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing is a partner, is excited to announce the launch of the new computer-based format of the generalist gerontological nursing certification exams. The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) will initially launch the new exams April 1- May 17, 2004. Nurses who sign up for the exam by March 12th will receive a special discount on the exam and qualify for paper and pencil rates instead of the computer-based rates. To request a catalog and application for the exam, please contact ANCC at 1-800-284-2378. Nurses can also access a free online certification review course at the Institute for Geriatric Nursing's Web site at www.nyu.edu/education/nursing/hartford.institute/course/. The Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) has accepted and posted the Hartford Institute's geriatric protocols from "Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice" by Mathy Mezey, Ivo Abraham, and Deann Zwicker. These protocols are available on AHRQ website's National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) Web site. Go to the upper left of the site, enter "Hartford" in the Search box. This will provide links to nine clinical guidelines: The University of Texas School of Nursing's Nancy Gergstrom, PhD, RN, FAAN, has developed a VHS Video on "How to Identify and Prevent Pressure Ulcers." For further information, contact Vaunette Fay, PhD, GNP, at Vaunette.P.Fay@UTH.TMC.edu. The Hartford Institute has developed the "Try This Dementia Series" in partnership with the Alzheimers Association. Each "Try This" issue is a two-page document. On the first page is a description of why the topic is important when caring for older adults. On page two is an assessment tool that can be administered in 20 minutes or less. To download the Try This Dementia Series, or other "Try This" assessment tools, click here. 5.
HGNI People
Welcome to Debbie Latimer, the new gerontology project manager at AACN, who will be working closely with Deirdre Thornlow, Annie Alesandrini and the rest of the AACN team. Latimer has 13 years experience in non-profit organizations in which she has functioned in several senior positions. Her most recent experience includes serving as Case Manager and Community Outreach Specialist for a non-profit traumatic brain injury service. She is skilled at synthesizing material from a variety of sources and possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills—as folks who are working with AACN are already finding out. She received her MSW from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University, St Louis, MO. She earned her BA from Washington University as well. Congratulations to the first-ever Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Scholars who completed their two year award program during the last six months of 2003. They set a standard of excellence in achievement and have now joined the growing leadership in the field of geriatric nursing. In following newsletters we'll highlight some of these graduates, where they are and what they're doing—post-award. Look for the next call for BAGNC Scholar Award Applications in March 2004. Interested applicants may obtain a copy of the 2005 application from the program's Web site starting March 29, 2004. American Journal of Nursing named the Hartford Institute's "Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice," published by Springer Publishing Company as the Gerontologic Nursing Book of the Year for 2003. Congratulations to editors, Mathy Mezey, Terry Fulmer, and Ivo Abraham, and Managing Editor, DeAnn Zwicker, as well as the expert clinicians who contributed chapters! NYU Downtown Hospital, a participant in the Hartford Institute's Nurses Improving Care for Health System Elders (NICHE) program, is featured as the cover story in January 26, 2004 issue of Nursing Spectrum (NY/NJ Edition). This article describes the work to improve care to older adults in that hospital and the NICHE program efforts to provide system-wide nursing models of care delivery to older adults. For more information, click here. In an article entitled, "AGEism - A Hidden Bias in Healthcare," Dr. Mathy Mezey, Director of the Hartford Institute, is also featured in the February 9 issue of Nursing Spectrum. 6.
Hartford Foundation Promotes O'Sullivan, Hires New Grants Manager
At the Hartford Foundation, James F. O'Sullivan, who many of you knew as the Grants and Projects Officer, has been promoted to Program Officer, with responsibilities in the Foundation's gerontological social work program, communications, and other grants. Francisco J. Doll, formerly with the Medical and Health Research Association in New York City, is the new Grants Manager. Frank spent seven years working in the international operations and finance department at Toys R Us, and then moved to the nonprofit sector. He received a Masters in Public Administration at NYU. For the last four years at MHRA, he has worked in New York City on the administration and coordination of large federal grants for HIV programs, including multi-year grants for health services, housing, and legal advocacy programs. 7.
HGNI link of the month — CAAR Report
CAAR (Current Awareness in Aging Research) is a weekly e-mail report produced by the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison that helps researchers keep up to date with the latest developments in the field. It is a terrific resource chock full of announcements about new research, data sets, reports and much more. For more information, including an archive of back issues and subscription information, click here. Write
to Us
We are committed to creating a monthly publication that serves your needs and interests. New Directions, therefore, welcomes your feedback and encourages you to supply ideas, stories, resources, news and other content for subsequent issues. To make a contribution, please contact Patty Franklin at pfrankli@ana.org, Deirdre Thornlow at dthornlo@aacn.nche.edu or Elaine Gould at elaine.gould@nyu.edu. Please
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