Developing an Online Gerontological Certificate Anne Wilkinson MS, RN, CNE

Step 1: Inquiry of Community Needs Consider your community Urban Rural Suburban

Inquiry of Community Needs Who are the community partners Clinical agencies Home health agencies Hospice Faith based partners County Alliances Kenosha County Long Term Care Alliance

Inquiry of Community Needs Needs assessment from Community Partners Increasing acuity of admissions to LTC Increasing admissions of older adults to acute care Health Promotion Home Health Needs Access to Health Care Workforce Development

Step 2: Convincing the College Background and Significance Recommendations from IOM – Committee on the Future of Nursing: Education  (2010) Care of older adults is increasingly outside of acute care settings Care of older adults will be a large and growing part of nursing in the future Resources and partnerships in the community should be used to prepare nurses

Step 3: Analyze the Community Specific Aging

Step 4: Show the Future Need Scarcity looming of adequately prepared healthcare workers IOM Retooling for an Aging America, 2008 3 million nurses < 1 % have specialized in geriatrics Stierle et al., 2006

Step 5: Get to work! Form Advisory Committee with partners Mission: job training and retraining; which recognizes the rapidly changing educational needs of county residents

Get to work! What are the pressing needs of your community partners? Increased acuity Morale Pharmacology Assessment Readmissions Staff Development

Step 6: Approve Curriculum Advisory Committee approval Nursing Program approval College approval

10-810-21 Gerontological and Rehabilitative Nursing Care 510-155 Principles of Gerontological Nursing 510-156 Assessment of the Older Adult 510-157 Rehabilitative Care and Chronic Disease Management

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