Graduate Certificate Program
Purpose: To support the overall goal of the University of Utah Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (UUHCGNE) to expand the number of highly qualified geriatric nursing faculty by specifically focusing on objective three:
- Prepare at least 10% of adult care graduates as geriatric nursing experts who earn the geriatric nursing/gerontology certificate with at least nine credits of designated aging course work.
Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program
Graduate Certificate
This 15-hour graduate certificate program has been designed to prepare adult care graduates as geriatric nursing experts qualified to provide faculty for basic and advanced practice nursing programs in community colleges, colleges and universities. The gerontology certificate will be indicated on a student’s transcript. Additional courses may be added upon request and approval from UUHCGNE/GIP.
Category A: Certificate Core Courses: must take both
GERON 6001: Introduction to Gerontology
(This course must be taken on-ground. Exceptions may be granted by Dale Lund Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence Associate Director of Research)
Overview of gerontology presented by examining some of the major issues, problems, and solutions related to an aging society; research methodology and theories of aging; and future implications at local, national, and international levels. The value of interdisciplinary and life course perspectives are emphasized.
NURS 6010: Teaching and Learning in Advanced Practice
Content and experience basic to the teaching role of clinical specialists, nurse practitioners, and nursing administrators, including an overview of the teaching-learning process, systematic planning for teaching-learning, selection of appropriate teaching methodologies, and evaluation of learning. Current educational and nursing research topics will be considered to assist in the application of findings. Time also spent with a preceptor.
Category B: Choose any two
GERON 6002: Service Agencies and Programs
GERON 6004: Adult Transitions
GERON 6050: Best Practices in Geriatric Nursing
GERON 6320: Death, Dying & Bereavement
GERON 6370: Health & Optimal Aging
GERON 6390/6395: Geriatric Care Management
GERON 6400: Gerontology Research
GERON 6604/NURS 6604: Physiology & Psychology of Aging
GERON 6950: Independent Study
GERON 6960: Special Topics
(Aging & Social Work) or (Long Term Care Administrator)
GERON 6990: Practicum
* additional courses may be added to Category B upon request and approval from GIP/UUHCGNE
Category C: Choose any one
NURS 6011: Introduction to Nursing Curriculum and Classroom Instruction
(Must be taken with geriatric/geron focus.)
NURS 6013: Clinical Instruction in Nursing Education
(Must be taken with geriatric/geron focus.)
NURS 6395: Geriatric Care Management Seminar and Practicum
NURS 6564: End of Life/Palliative Care
NURS 6600: Elder Health Promotion
NURS 6601: Episodic Problems of Adults and Elders
NURS 6603: Chronic Problems of Adults and Elders
NURS 6604/GERON 6604: Physiology and Psychology of Aging
* additional courses may be added to Category C upon request and approval from
