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The
Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence (HCGNE) at
the University of Pennsylvania is one of five centers
funded by the John A. Hartford Foundation in 2001.
In
addition to establishing the five centers at Schools
of Nursing at the University of California San Francisco,
Oregon Health Sciences University, the University
of Arkansas, the University of Iowa, and the University
of Pennsylvania, the John
A. Hartford Foundation, under the leadership of
Dr. Claire Fagin and the American
Academy of Nursing, is providing ten predoctoral
scholarships and ten postdoctoral fellowships per
year, at the level of $50,000 per annum for two years
to "build
geriatric nursing capacity." For links
to other Hartford centers and programs, please visit
http://www.gerontologicalnursing.info/.
The
John A. Hartford Foundation, Inc. of New York City
is a private philanthropy established in 1929. John
A. Hartford and his brother, George, both former chief
executives of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea
Company, left the bulk of their estates to the Foundation
upon their deaths in the 1950s. Since 1979, the Foundation
has focused its support on improving the health care
system to accommodate the nation's aging population.
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WELCOME
from the Director
Neville Strumpf, PhD, RN, FAAN
Edith
Clemmer Steinbright Professor in Gerontology
Director, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing
Excellence
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Welcome
to the John A. Hartford Foundation Center of Geriatric
Nursing Excellence (HCGNE) at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Nursing .
As
one of five such centers in the country, our major
goal is to provide leadership in creating and disseminating
innovations for frail vulnerable elders. This fits
beautifully with Penn Nursing's mission to create
knowledge, define practice, and produce tomorrow's
leaders, especially with regard to a growing aging
population throughout the world.
Our
special hallmarks are research focused on interventions
that enhance outcomes of care and quality of life,
development and dissemination of new models of care,
which can influence policy, interdisciplinary education
in gerontology for undergraduate students, master's
students in the gerontology nurse practitioner and
nursing administration programs, joint MBA programs
with the Wharton School, and pre-and post-doctoral
fellows. We have funded Hartford scholars in all of
these graduate offerings.
The
faculty of Penn's Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing
Excellence are acknowledged leaders in their fields.
They promote a spirit of inquiry, commitment to excellence,
and a
diffusion of the boundaries that so often separate
practice, research and education.
Please
join more than 20 faculty with expertise in aging
on a career that will indeed advance your life.
The
Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence at the
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing builds on
an established foundation of research, education and
practice in aging.
The
mission of the Center is to focus on building nursing
capacity through preparation of the next critical mass
of scholars and researchers in aging who will advance
knowledge in gerontological nursing practice, broaden
interdisciplinary aging research, and contribute in
substantive ways to the science of individualized care
for at-risk older adults. The goals of the Center of
Geriatric Nursing Excellence are to leverage our
scientific interests and skills with a focus on
at-risk older adults; to expand mentorship efforts
beyond our own institution and scholars; to enhance
existing educational initiatives, particularly
palliative care and gero-psychiatric nursing; to
continue interdisciplinary and community partnerships;
to translate research into evidence based practice;
and to assure sustainability of the HCGNE with an
appropriate infrastructure. Our aims are to:
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Goal 1: Leverage scientific interests and skills aimed at the individualized care of at-risk older adults.
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Goal 2: Expand mentorship efforts beyond our institution and
scholars.
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Goal 3: Enhance existing educational initiatives with a special
focus on palliative care and gero-psychiatric nursing.
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Goal 4: Continue interdisciplinary and community partnerships.
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Goal 5: Translate research into evidence-based practice through the
Penn Nursing Consultation Service (PNCS), development
of practice protocols, and web-based dissemination.
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Goal 6: Assure sustainability of the HCGNE with an appropriate
infrastructure.
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