Enhance the scope of your nursing specialty                                               with geriatric expertise

Nurse Competence in Aging is a new 5-year initiative funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., awarded to the American Nurses Foundation (ANF) on behalf of the American Nurses Association (ANA) and represents a strategic alliance between ANA, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and the John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University, Division of Nursing.

Nurse Competence in Aging aims to improve the quality of health care to older adults by enhancing the geriatric competence – the attitudes, knowledge and skills – of the 400,000 nurses who are professionally identified as members of specialty nursing associations.
 

Nurse Competence in Aging consists of three basic program activities: 1. Promoting Geriatric Activities of National Specialty Nursing Associations Creating permanent geriatric structures within specialty nursing associations Promoting geriatric activities in specialty nursing associations Offering funding to specialty nursing associations to move forward from their current level of geriatric activity

2. National Gerontological Nursing Certification Outreach

• Increasing the number of specialty nurses who sit for the ANCC Gerontological Nursing Certification Examinations
• Making the ANCC Gerontological Nursing Certification Examination more accessible and available by moving the Examination to computer based format

• Creating a virtual comprehensive geriatric nursing resource center
• Working with designated “Web Fellows” that maintain their specialty’s content on the site

For more information on how you can get involved
with the Nurse Competence in Aging Initiative, please contact:

Jessica Scholder, MPH
Executive Project Manager
Phone: (212) 998-9001
Email: Jessica.Scholder@nyu.edu