Teaching Care of Older Adults: The ACES Workshop at the National League for Nursing Summit

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. Amy Berman, senior program officer, will discuss, Living Life In My Own Way-And Dying That Way As Well, based on a Narrative Matters piece she authored for the policy journal Health Affairs. To learn more about the NLN Summit and pre-conference workshop go to http://www.nln.org/summit/index.htm.

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. Amy Berman, senior program officer, will discuss, Living Life In My Own Way-And Dying That Way As Well, based on a Narrative Matters piece she authored for the policy journal Health Affairs. To learn more about the NLN Summit and pre-conference workshop go to http://www.nln.org/summit/index.htm.

Presenters: Mary Cato, MSN, RN; Tamika Curry, MSN, RN; Barbara McLaughlin, PhD, RN, CNE, ANEF; Mary Anne Rizzolo, EdD, RN, FAAN, ANEF; Amy Berman, BS, RN, Hartford Foundation senior program officer