GERONTOLOGICAL COMMUNITY-ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP FOR AN MSN INTERNSHIP

<p>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.</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>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Nursing

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Serafin-Dickson, Francine

Contributors dc:contributor

• TIMOTHY GODFREY, SJ, DNP, MSW, RN
• WANDA BORGES, PHD, RN

• gerontological nursing curriculum
• care coordination
• community-dwelling older adults
• service-learning
• community partnership building
• Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/dnp/108

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:dnp-1122