National League of Nursing Utilizes Multimedia Educational Material Focused on Geriatrics
The National League of Nursing (NLN), a former Hartford grantee has been utilizing multimedia educational tools focused on geriatrics to teach and inspire the next generation of nursing students. Using complicatedly-simulated scenarios of older patients, such multimedia learning techniques are becoming more and more popular as the newer cohorts of students are already accustomed to these learning styles.
The National League of Nursing (NLN), a former Hartford grantee has been utilizing multimedia educational tools focused on geriatrics to teach and inspire the next generation of nursing students. The NLN's use of multimedia teaching material was recently featured in a Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Using complicatedly-simulated scenarios of older patients, such multimedia learning techniques are becoming more and more popular as the newer cohorts of students are already accustomed to these learning styles.
The Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors (ACES) program was conceived in 2009 with funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation due "to care of older adults...not well integrated into nursing programs," said Elaine Tagliareni, the league's chief program officer. With 75 percent of the care that nurses give is to people over the age of 65, a percentage that is likely to increase as the aging population grows in the coming years, familiarizing nursing students to the care and needs of older patients will become imperitive in preparing a workforce that can adequately treat such a rapidly growing demographic.
"Traditional-based teaching is really over for most of us," Tagliareni said at an ACES conference recently. The virtual patients that nursing students treat are meant to acclimate and prepare students to real-life, complicated medical scenarios of older patients once they begin their nursing careers.
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