The University
of Alberta faculty of nursing has joined the National Hartford Centers of
Gerontological Nursing Excellence (NHCGNE), the first school outside the U.S.
to do so.
The organization’s mission is to enhance and sustain the capacity
and competency of nurses to provide quality care to older adults through
faculty development, advancing gerontological nursing science, facilitating
adoption of best practices, fostering leadership, and designing and shaping
policy.
To be invited
to join, schools of nursing must have demonstrated a commitment to gerontological
nursing and share a vision of optimal health and quality of life for older
adults.
“It is
exciting that our expertise has been acknowledged internationally by the
NHCGNE,” said Dr. Anita Molzahn, dean of the nursing faculty. “As one of the
leading research-intensive nursing faculties in Canada, we have a strong cohort
of researchers interested in aging and gerontological nursing.
“With 25 per
cent of our faculty members -- many of whom are leading scholars -- focusing
their research and scholarship primarily on care of older adults, this
partnership will facilitate future research activity and faculty development
relating to gerontological nursing.”
The main goals of the National Hartford Centers of Gerontological
Excellence are to increase the cadre of academic geriatric nurses, build
leadership capacity in academic geriatric nurses, and build national
collaboration and excitement about geriatric/gerontological nursing.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the organization was started in
2000 with support from the John A. Hartford Foundation, and subsequently
attracted additional funding partners in the Atlantic Philanthropies and Mayday
Fund.
These institutions have invested over $80 million in national
efforts to build academic gerontological nursing capacity through their
support. The program has supported more than 200 pre-doctoral and postdoctoral
nursing scholars who have stimulated excitement about the field among nursing
students and practicing nurses. They are the leaders who will shape future care
for older persons.
The John A. Hartford Foundation is a private philanthropy working
to improve the health of older people established by in 1929. John A. Hartford
and his brother, George L. Hartford, both former chief executives of the Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (the A&P grocery chain), left the bulk
of their estates to the foundation when they died in the 1950s.
Today the foundation seeks to put geriatrics expertise to work in
all health care settings by advancing practice change and innovation,
supporting team-based care through interdisciplinary education of all health
care providers, supporting policies and regulations that promote better care,
and developing and disseminating new evidence-based models that deliver better,
more cost-effective health care.
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