Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence Arizona

Grant Summary

In 2007, the John A. Hartford Foundation funded four new Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence to prepare over 500 nursing faculty members with expertise in geriatrics. The schools of nursing at Arizona State University, Pennsylvania State University, and the Universities of Minnesota and Utah have each designed new centers to recruit, retain, and retrain academic geriatric nursing faculty. By the end of the grant period, 178 new doctoral and master's trained geriatric nursing faculty members will be prepared to educate nursing students. At least 340 existing nursing faculty will receive geriatrics training to help them better educate nursing students in the care of older adults. Three of the centers will create regional consortia to expand their geographic reach and train nurses serving elderly populations most in need.