Hartford Institute: Ten Years of Progress

Milestones: 1996

Opening Celebration

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Milestones: 1997

Ribbon cutting for newly created Hartford Institute home; (l to r): Terry Fulmer; James D. Farley, former chairman, Hartford Foundation; Mathy Mezey

Milestones: 1998

First American Association of Colleges of Nursing/Hartford Institute Award for Baccalaureate Education in Geriatric Nursing

First Best Practices Conference is held

First Gerontological Society of America/Hartford Institute Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award

First "Nursing Counts" is published

First annual Scholars and Fellows Summer Research Seminar is held

First Try This published; will appear regularly in 20 publications

Creation of Best Nursing Practices in Care for Older Adults Curriculum Guide for Baccalaureate Education and Staff Development

Milestones: 1999

NICHE Program begins under Hartford Institute leadership

Start of Specialty Nursing Activities Partnership Program (SNAPP) exhibit booth: 1999-2004; funded by the Avon Foundation

Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice, 1st edition, is published by Springer Publishing Company

Milestones: 2000

Minimum Nursing Staffing Standards for Nursing Facilities is published in The Gerontologist

American Association of Colleges of Nursing/Hartford Institute baccalaureate competencies guidelines are published

Milestones: 2001

First "Nursing Counts" is published by the American Journal of Nursing, coordinated by Charlene Harrington and Christine Kovner

Hartford Institute convenes new Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations, representing 18,500 nurses; Sarah Greene Burger, chair

Milestones: 2002

Nurse Competence in Aging is founded. Funded by the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., it forms a strategic alliance among the American Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, and the Hartford Institute

Health Affairs article on the nursing workforce is published

Free national gerontological nursing certification review course launched on the Hartford Institute Web site

Milestones: 2003

Best Nursing Practices in Care of Older Adults Curriculum Guide for Baccalaureate Education and Staff Development issued as CD ROM

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) posts selected Hartford Institute-developed protocols on its Web site

Try This issued in PDA format

Protocols book, 2nd Edition, receives American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in geriatrics

Milestones: 2004

American Association of Colleges of Nursing/Hartford Institute publish advanced practice nursing Competencies

Try This Dementia series starts, funded by Alzheimer's Association

Nurse Competence in Aging project launches GeroNurseOnline.org Web site

American Organization of Nurse Executives/NICHE Award is initiated to honor a hospital that embodies best practice in nursing care to older adults

Milestones: 2005

Results of national BSN school follow-up survey of geriatric content are published in the Journal of Professional Nursing

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society publishes paper: "Experts Recommend Strategies for Strengthening the Use of Advanced Practice Nurses in Nursing Homes"

Milestones: 2006

127 geriatric nurse researchers have participated in the Geriatric Nursing Research Summer Scholars Program

Hartford Institute collaborates with American Organization of Nurse Executives to begin Elder-Friendly Hospital Initiative

"Geriatric Competencies for RNs in Hospitals" is published in the Journal for Nurses in Staff Development

"The Nurse Competence in Aging Initiative" is published in American Journal of Nursing