University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence
Important Announcements:
Come see us at the Gerontological Society of America Conference~All 9-gero focused PhD Students will be attending, some of the PhD faculty, students and faculty are presenting 10 posters or papers and check out Booth 78!
Congratulations to PhD students Valerie Flattes, Maureen Henry, Michelle Litchman, Mary Murphy, and Kathy Wright on presenting at GSA.
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
PhD student Kathy Wright, RN, MSN, GCNS-BS, PMHCNS-BC led this effort on behalf of the Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy Fellows. She worked closely with Cynthia McDonald, RN, MSN, Oregon Health and Science University Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, another GNLA Fellow. Health Care Reform and the care of older adults is an important topic for the nation and for students who are in or considering a nursing program.
Congratulations to PhD student Dawn Wold, RN, MSN on her selection to the 2009 Grantmakers-in-Aging Fellows Program. Dawn is one of eight graduate and post-doctoral students recognized and one of four selected to share her research with leading funders and philanthropists at a round table breakfast.
BAGNC Scholarship and Fellowship Applications Now Open
The University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence is designed to increase the number of faculty qualified to teach geriatric nursing. The 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.
