You're Invited to a FREE WEBINAR!Join us on Thursday, May 3, 2018 at 2:00 pm EST for a FREE webinar on:
"Best Practices in Diabetes Management and Optimizing Insulin Delivery in Older Adults."
Presented By Dr. Naushira Pandya, MD, CMD, FACP." You'll earn 1 contact hour!
Take the GAPNA Home Health SurveyThe members of GAPNA’s Health Affairs Committee established a coalition of key stakeholders interested in affecting change as it relates to Medicare certified home health.
Call for Excellence Award NominationsThe awards are: the- Established Chapter Excellence Award, Special Interest Group Excellence Award, Excellence in Clinical Practice Award, Excellence in Community Service Award, Excellence in Education Award, Excellence in Leadership Award, and Excellence in Research Award. Just added - a brand new award: Emerging Chapter Award!
The nominations are tallied in July and the winners are announced every year during the Awards Celebration at the GAPNA Annual Conference.
Now is the time to nominate a colleague or yourself - due by June 1, 2016.
The Education- and Toolkit Committees of GAPNA launched their 2017 revised “Gerontology Resources for APRN Preceptors and Students,” toolkit.
The goal of this toolkit is to make geriatric and gerontological content accessible to those caring for older adults. It is designed with advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) students, preceptors, and educators in mind, and it provides a single portal to comprehensive resources.
ONLINE NOW:Note the latest trends in the care, education, and research of the older adult population.
The GAPNA Clinical Resource CornerDesigned Especially
for the Gerontological Advanced Practice Registered Nurse
With over 106+ categories, the short features/articles contain valuable information tailored especially for Gerontological APRN's that will help them with patients, as well as increase their knowledge of this field of nursing. All of the articles directly affect, involve, and impact the elderly.
FREE continuing education credit is available for the following session:
Mark your calendars - save the dates! The 2019 and 2020 Annual Conference locations and dates have been announced. Also for the 2019 Pharmacology Conference!
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From the GAPNA Newsletter - "Accomplishments Mark a Successful Year," by Cindy Nissen. Forty-four CGAPN members attended the 36th Annual GAPNA Conference in Nashville, TN. Kimberly S. Blanchard and Eleanore Whelan presented their clinical project, “Culturally Sensitive Diabetes Self-Management Program for Older Adults in a Community Setting.”
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New Article Addition to the Clinical Research Corner - Nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) have increasingly provided primary care treatment services to Medicare patients over the past decade, according to recent studies: A study by Xue et al. (2017) published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 8(4), 256-263,...
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From the GAPNA Newsletter - Helen Burns, MSN, ANP-BC, AGN-BC, AOCNP, Great Lakes Chapter in Michigan, is GAPNA's latest Rising Star. Helen has been a member of GAPNA for 4 years because she was inspired by our current national President, Michelle Moccia. “Every nursing position I’ve ever held has involved working with older adults in some capacity,” said Helen...
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