NLN Workshop: Teaching Nursing Care for Older Adults, Nov. 16, Livonia, MI

Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors (ACES) guides the teaching of nursing students to provide competent, individualized and humanistic care to older adults. This workshop addresses the complexity of decision making about care for the older adult in a variety of home, institutional and community-based settings.

To register and for more information, please visit: http://www.nln.org/facultyprograms/Workshops/aces_mi/index.htm

Presented by national experts in nursing curriculum innovation and gerontological nursing

Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors (ACES) guides the teaching of nursing students to provide competent, individualized and humanistic care to older adults. This workshop addresses the complexity of decision making about care for the older adult in a variety of home, institutional and community-based settings.

ACES WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the ACES Workshop – Innovations in Teaching, the participant will be able to:

  • Understand how the primary components of the NLN ACES framework promote quality care of older adults.
  • Discuss how the NLN ACES framework builds upon other initiatives such as the QSEN (Quality and Safety in Nursing Education), and the IOM’s (Institute of Medicine) series of reports on health care quality (Crossing the Quality Chasm Series).
  • Explain the pedagogical basis of the ACES unfolding cases.
  • Discuss how to apply simulation debriefing techniques to facilitate student learning of quality care of older adults.
  • Discuss the use of ACES unfolding cases to teach care of older adults.
  • Identify three ways to begin and sustain change related to teaching care of older adults within your course, team, or nursing program.

To register and for more information, please visit: http://www.nln.org/facultyprograms/Workshops/aces_mi/index.htm