NICHE Partners with the National Partnership for Women and Families in the Campaign for Better Care
NICHE is a proud partner of an exciting new health care initiative, the Campaign for Better Care. This growing movement of patients, caregivers, advocates and concerned citizens will be working to ensure that we all realize the promise of health reform. Run by the National Partnership for Women & Families, Community Catalyst and the National Health Law Program, this multi-year initiative will focus on improving health care quality, coordination and communication for older patients with multiple health problems and their family caregivers. One of the Campaign’s key goals is to build a consumer movement of and for older adults and individuals with multiple chronic conditions to advocate for the comprehensive, coordinated, patient- and family-centered care they need and deserve. Be a part of it! Check out the new campaign website at www.CampaignforBetterCare.org to learn more about the campaign, its partners, and how to get involved.
NICHE Featured in Advance for Nurses Online
"Keep Patients Moving: Nurses Prevent Functional Decline in the Elderly through Interdisciplinary Collaboration" (read full article here).
"Gerontologic Series" begins in the March Issue of the Journal of Nursing Scholarship
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, the official Journal of Sigma Theta Tau International, has begun publishing its special "Gerontological Series" (Editors: Heather M. Young, PhD, RN, FAAN and Elizabeth Capezuti, PhD, RN, FAAN). Two to three articles will be published each issue in 2010 and all nine articles in the series can be accessed on-line at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123188083/issue
American geriatrics society released the Clinical Practice Guideline: Prevention of Falls in Older Persons.
Read the guidelines here.
NICHE Faculty recieve awards at NGNA (National Gerontological Nursing Association) Conference:
AHRQ - NICHE grant funded!
Dr. Heidi Wald has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for $1,149,807 to support her project, "Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in NICHE Hospitals". She began this work as part of her funded NIA/Hartford Foundation/AP Paul B. Career Development Award in Aging. Dr. Liz Capezuti will serve as Co-Investigator.
Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association 2009 Annual Educational Conference in Savannah, GA. awards:
NICHE advocate Sarah H. Kagan Publishes her new book: Cancer In The Lives of Older Americans
Little has been written to guide clinicians, social scientists, families, and individuals about cancer among the "oldest old." In Cancer in the Lives of Older Americans, Sarah H. Kagan approaches this problem from the perspective of more than twenty years of practice, inquiry, and education as a nurse.
Click here to read more.
NICHE Faculty publish article in Clinical Nursing Research Journal
Dr. Marie Boltz, Dr. Hongsoo Kim, Dr. Elizabeth Capezuti, Dr. Susan Fairchild, and Michelle Secic recently published an article entitled "Test–Retest Reliability of the Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile" in the Clinical Nursing Research Journal. The GIAP measures nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward older adults as well as the organizational attributes that support or constrain geriatric best practices. Test-retest reliability estimates of the GIAP were conducted with a sample of 166 direct care nurses in three urban, university-affiliated hospitals over a 3-week time period. To access this article via PubMed click here.
Congragulations on Recent Journal Article
Dr. Hongsoo Kim, Dr. Elizabeth Capezuti, Dr. Marie Boltz, and Dr. Susan Fairchild for their recent publication in the Western Journal of Nursing Research entitled "The Nursing Practice Environment and Nurse-Perceived Quality of Geriatric Care in Hospitals."
Dr. Boltz receives prestigious Fagin Fellowship!
Dr. Marie Boltz, Assistant Professor at NYU College of Nursing, has been named a 2009-2011 Claire M. Fagin Fellow. The prestigious $120,000 Fellowship supports two years of full time advanced research and leadership training for doctorally prepared faculty committed to careers in academic geriatric nursing.
Administered by the Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) of the American Academy of Nursing, funding is provided by The John A. Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. Dr. Boltz’s project, “Nursing Care Practices and Other Factors Associated with Physical Function in Hospitalized Older Adults,” will determine how changes in physical function (activities of daily living and physical activity) occur in hospitalized older medical patients, and whether risk factors for functional decline can be modified by nursing staff in order to prevent or reduce the rate of functional decline. Dr. Barbara Resnick, Professor and the Sonya Ziporkin Gershowitz Endowe d Chair in Gerontology at the University of Maryland School Of Nursing, will serve as mentor to Dr. Boltz. Click here for more information.
Congratulations to Barb Schrage, RN, MS, FNP
Barb Schrage, RN, MS, FNP, Highland Hospital, was the recipient of Health Care Achievement Award from The Rochester Business Journal
Barb Schrage received a nursing award, for which she and two other recipients were recognized at a luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on March 19. This award recognizes nurses who make a significant impact on their organization and the quality of health care in the community.
