Fostering Geriatrics in Pre-licensure Nursing Education: Phase II

Grant Summary

The Foundation awarded a grant to the Community College of Philadelphia and the National League for Nursing to build on a previous grant that identified faculty development in geriatrics for associate degree nursing program faculty as an important step in preparing nurses to care for older adults. The goal of the initiative is to develop minimum educational standards for care of older adults, provide training and technical assistance to more than 750 faculty for implementation of the minimum standards, and support widespread implementation by facilitating access to existing and new geriatric resources by the 28,000 pre-licensure nursing faculty members of the National League for Nursing.