University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
The University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence is designed to increase the number of faculty qualified to teach geriatric nursing. The new center is one of nine in the United States funded by a five year, $1 million dollar grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation.
The goal of the University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence is to expand the number of highly qualified geriatric nursing faculty prepared to teach in all levels of nursing programs. During the first 5 years the Center will utilize distance PhD education to prepare 18-20 nurse scientists qualified for teaching careers in research intensive universities and at least 22 MS and/or DNP graduates prepared as geriatric experts to provide faculty for basic and advanced practice nursing programs in community colleges, colleges, and universities.
