Evaluation of Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium Featured in Health Affairs Grantwatch
The January 2013 issue of Health Affairs, featured the Hartford-funded Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium initiative in an article entitled "Grantwatch Foundation Funding To Educate, Train, And Expand The Health Professions Workforce." The article provides a sampling of what foundations are funding to help meet various needs related to the health professions workforce.
Read the full article on Health Affairs here.
09 Jan, 2013
The January 2013 issue of Health Affairs, featured the Hartford-funded Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium initiative in an article entitled "Grantwatch Foundation Funding To Educate, Train, And Expand The Health Professions Workforce." The article provides a sampling of what foundations are funding to help meet various needs related to the health professions workforce.
Shoshanna Sofaer and colleagues at Baruch College evaluated the Geriatric Nursing Education Consortium initiative. Entitled “Multiplying Change: Ensuring All Nurses Learn to Care Well for Older Adults,” their July 2012 brief on the evaluation documents “the remarkable success” of the initiative. Hartford awarded a $2.48 million implementation grant to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University collaborated on the effort.
In this initiative, nursing faculty from 418 institutions, located in all fifty states, attended a Faculty Development Institute. Almost 82 percent of the institutions that reported to the evaluators at the end of two years “revised and enhanced” existing senior-level nursing courses with “evidence-based curricular material on caring for older adults.” Also, more than one hundred new purely geriatric courses were created. In summarizing various initiative results, the authors note, “Since such a high proportion of patients are older adults, [the initiative’s] success serves as a quality boost for the entire health care system.”
Read the full article on Health Affairs here.
