Milestones: 1996
Opening Celebration
Milestones: 1997
Ribbon cutting for newly created Hartford Institute home; (l to r): Terry Fulmer; James D. Farley, former chairman, Hartford Foundation; Mathy Mezey
Milestones: 1998
First American Association of Colleges of Nursing/Hartford Institute Award for Baccalaureate Education in Geriatric Nursing
First Best Practices Conference is held
First Gerontological Society of America/Hartford Institute Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award
First "Nursing Counts" is published
First annual Scholars and Fellows Summer Research Seminar is held
First Try This published; will appear regularly in 20 publications
Creation of Best Nursing Practices in Care for Older Adults Curriculum Guide for Baccalaureate Education and Staff Development
Milestones: 1999
NICHE Program begins under Hartford Institute leadership
Start of Specialty Nursing Activities Partnership Program (SNAPP) exhibit booth: 1999-2004; funded by the Avon Foundation
Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice, 1st edition, is published by Springer Publishing Company
Milestones: 2000
Minimum Nursing Staffing Standards for Nursing Facilities is published in The Gerontologist
American Association of Colleges of Nursing/Hartford Institute baccalaureate competencies guidelines are published
Milestones: 2001
First "Nursing Counts" is published by the American Journal
of Nursing, coordinated by Charlene Harrington and Christine Kovner
Hartford Institute convenes new Coalition of Geriatric Nursing Organizations, representing 18,500 nurses; Sarah Greene Burger, chair
Milestones: 2002
Nurse Competence in Aging is founded. Funded by the Atlantic
Philanthropies (USA) Inc., it forms a strategic alliance among the
American Nurses Association, American Nurses Credentialing Center, and
the Hartford Institute
Health Affairs article on the nursing workforce is published
Free national gerontological nursing certification review course launched on the Hartford Institute Web site
Milestones: 2003
Best Nursing Practices in Care of Older Adults Curriculum Guide for Baccalaureate Education and Staff Development issued as CD ROM
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) posts selected Hartford Institute-developed protocols on its Web site
Try This issued in PDA format
Protocols book, 2nd Edition, receives American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award in geriatrics
Milestones: 2004
American Association of Colleges of Nursing/Hartford Institute publish advanced practice nursing Competencies
Try This Dementia series starts, funded by Alzheimer's Association
Nurse Competence in Aging project launches GeroNurseOnline.org Web site
American Organization of Nurse Executives/NICHE Award is initiated to honor a hospital that embodies best practice in nursing care to older adults
Milestones: 2005
Results of national BSN school follow-up survey of geriatric content are published in the Journal of Professional Nursing
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society publishes paper: "Experts Recommend Strategies for Strengthening the Use of Advanced Practice Nurses in Nursing Homes"
Milestones: 2006
127 geriatric nurse researchers have participated in the Geriatric
Nursing Research Summer Scholars Program
Hartford Institute collaborates with American Organization of Nurse Executives to begin Elder-Friendly Hospital Initiative
"Geriatric Competencies for RNs in Hospitals" is published in the Journal for Nurses in Staff Development
"The Nurse Competence in Aging Initiative" is published in American Journal of Nursing