Comments on: Nursing Workforce Solutions for the 21st Century http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=644 The John A. Hartford Foundation blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:02:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Pamela Dudzik http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=644&cpage=1#comment-326 Pamela Dudzik Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:01:46 +0000 http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=644#comment-326 We appreciate JAHF funding of the Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative, which is designed to help improve the training of nurses for the care of elders suffering depression, dementia and other mental health disorders. While it is not specifically expanding the nursing workforce, it will expand the abilities of current and future nurses. We appreciate JAHF funding of the Geropsychiatric Nursing Collaborative, which is designed to help improve the training of nurses for the care of elders suffering depression, dementia and other mental health disorders. While it is not specifically expanding the nursing workforce, it will expand the abilities of current and future nurses.

]]> By: Christopher A. Langston http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=644&cpage=1#comment-275 Christopher A. Langston Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:08:27 +0000 http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=644#comment-275 Health professions education is a kind of societal "commons" - a place where different stakeholders make their claims for the importance of their issues - for us, geriatric care, an issue that we feel doesn't get enough attention. For other stakeholders it is mental health, pain, substance abuse, cultural competence, etc. I know that health educators feel somewhat trampled by all the interests demanding time in the curriculum, especially as nobody is arguing for things to be removed from curricula. Nevertheless, there has to be continuing change in what is taught and learned. There also needs to be a cost-benefit calculation to be sure that knowledge and skills that will really have an impact on the health of the public are given sufficient attention. Evidence based educational priorities? Health professions education is a kind of societal “commons” – a place where different stakeholders make their claims for the importance of their issues – for us, geriatric care, an issue that we feel doesn’t get enough attention. For other stakeholders it is mental health, pain, substance abuse, cultural competence, etc. I know that health educators feel somewhat trampled by all the interests demanding time in the curriculum, especially as nobody is arguing for things to be removed from curricula.

Nevertheless, there has to be continuing change in what is taught and learned. There also needs to be a cost-benefit calculation to be sure that knowledge and skills that will really have an impact on the health of the public are given sufficient attention. Evidence based educational priorities?

]]>