Nursing Initiative Coordinating Center and Scholar Stipends Renewal American Academy of Nursing

Grant Summary

This grant to the American Academy of Nursing supports the continuation of its role as the coordinating center for the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity initiative. The initiative consists of a geriatric nursing scholars program with annual leadership conferences and five centers of geriatric nursing excellence. With this grant, the American Academy of Nursing will continue to build academic geriatric nursing capacity through: predoctoral/MBA scholar and postdoctoral fellow recruitment, selection and support. leadership development. interdisciplinary research. collaborations among Hartford geriatric nursing projects. and dissemination.The Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity initiative was created in 2000 in response to the critical shortage of nursing faculty with the geriatric skills needed to educate future generations of nurses and the paucity of geriatric nursing curricula and research.