The growing population of older adults beckons nursing education to evolve and prepare the future nursing workforce with skills and knowledge to coordinate care for the community-dwelling older adult (gerontological) population. The purpose of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate academic partnerships with agencies serving community-dwelling older adults for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) students. The formation of Community-Academic Partnerships (CAP) offers the opportunity for an experiential learning internship in combination with a gerontological curriculum. The curriculum is integrated into the CNL role courses and internship, focusing on person-centered interactions with older adults; the benefits, burdens, and struggles of aging; and the available services and resources to assist and support the community-dwelling older adults to continue to age in place. Initial evaluations of the CAP by participating community agencies demonstrated support and a positive response to the partnership. Students’ initial assessment of their knowledge of, and attitudes toward, older adults demonstrated a slight increase after one semester of implementation. The Gerontological CAP serves as a model of how an academic institution can partner with community agencies that serve older adults to improve the MSN CNL’s gerontological competencies and attitudes regarding community-dwelling older adults, and ultimately promote healthy living in the aging population.
Keywords: geriatric/gerontological population, older adults, nursing education, graduate nursing students, community-academic partnerships, service-learning, community health nursing, community health partnerships, community partnership building, program effectiveness, program evaluation, and survey tools.
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Initial evaluations of the CAP by participating community agencies demonstrated support and a positive response to the partnership. Students’ initial assessment of their knowledge of, and attitudes toward, older adults demonstrated a slight increase after one semester of implementation. The Gerontological CAP serves as a model of how an academic institution can partner with community agencies that serve older adults to improve the MSN CNL’s gerontological competencies and attitudes regarding community-dwelling older adults, and ultimately promote healthy living in the aging population.</p> <p><em>Keywords</em><em>:</em> geriatric/gerontological population, older adults, nursing education, graduate nursing students, community-academic partnerships, service-learning, community health nursing, community health partnerships, community partnership building, program effectiveness, program evaluation, and survey tools.</p>","abstract_has_math":false,"creators":["Serafin-Dickson, Francine"],"institution":null,"degree_name":"Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)","degree_level":"Project","degree_discipline":"Nursing","degree_department":null,"school":null,"contributors":["TIMOTHY GODFREY, SJ, DNP, MSW, RN","WANDA BORGES, PHD, RN"],"advisors":[],"committee_chairs":[],"committee_members":[],"year":2017,"date_issued":"2017-12-15T08:00:00Z","date_published":"2017-12-15T08:00:00Z","updated_at":"2026-07-24T05:44:13Z","subjects":["gerontological nursing curriculum","care coordination","community-dwelling older adults","service-learning","community partnership building","Nursing"],"languages":[],"rights":[],"rights_urls":[],"identifier_entries":[]},"links":{"outbound_url":"https://repository.usfca.edu/dnp/108","outbound_label":"Repository record","outbound_source":"dc:identifier"},"metadata_groups":[{"id":"people","label":"People","entries":[{"key":"dc:contributor","label":"Contributor","values":["TIMOTHY GODFREY, SJ, DNP, MSW, RN","WANDA BORGES, PHD, RN"]},{"key":"dc:creator","label":"Author","values":["Serafin-Dickson, Francine"]}]},{"id":"academic_context","label":"Academic Context","entries":[{"key":"dc:date.available","label":"Dc Date Available","values":["2017-12-07T08:00:00Z"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_discipline","label":"Discipline","values":["Nursing"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_level","label":"Degree Level","values":["Project"]},{"key":"thesis:degree_name","label":"Degree Name","values":["Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)"]}]},{"id":"subjects_keywords","label":"Subjects and Keywords","entries":[{"key":"dc:subject","label":"Dc Subject","values":["gerontological nursing curriculum","care coordination","community-dwelling older adults","service-learning","community partnership building","Nursing"]}]},{"id":"identifiers","label":"Identifiers","entries":[{"key":"dc:identifier","label":"Identifier","values":["https://repository.usfca.edu/dnp/108"]}]},{"id":"additional","label":"Additional Metadata","entries":[{"key":"dc:description.abstract","label":"Abstract","values":["The growing population of older adults beckons nursing education to evolve and prepare the future nursing workforce with skills and knowledge to coordinate care for the community-dwelling older adult (gerontological) population. 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The Gerontological CAP serves as a model of how an academic institution can partner with community agencies that serve older adults to improve the MSN CNL’s gerontological competencies and attitudes regarding community-dwelling older adults, and ultimately promote healthy living in the aging population.
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