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NEW! The Toolkit Taskforce Committee of GAPNA created the “Acute Care Resource Guide” with the goal of making geriatric and gerontological content easily accessible to those caring for older adults in higher acuity care settings. It is designed with APRN students, preceptors, clinicians, and educators in mind, and to provide a single portal to comprehensive resources.

Title: "Survey of Healthcare Professional's Perceptions of Non-Pharmacological Interventions to Promote Sleep." You are being asked to participate in this research study because you are a palliative/hospice or geriatric health care professional.

Kanah May Lewallen, DNP, AGPCNP-BC, GNP-BC, an Instructor in Nursing, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, is GAPNA’s Summer Rising Star. Kanah become involved with GAPNA when she was searching for an organization that could provide her with the opportunity to network and stay up to date in her practice.

The annual election for 2018-2019 GAPNA Board of Directors is May 14-26, 2018. Members will receive a separate email containing a link to the ballot. Members are encouraged to take a moment to view "Meet the Candidates," read about why they feel they should be chosen for the position noted.

AANP Fellows Named; Education Award Announced: Please help us congratulate the following GAPNA members who have been named as 2018 Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners: Sue Mullaney, Jennifer Kim, Nancy Edwards, George Peraza-Smith, Gretchen Schumacher.

"Moving the United States toward a vibrant future of person-centered, team-based, and community aligned primary care." The Shared Principles, which build on the 2007 Patient-Centered Medical Home Joint Principles, include seven important attributes of advanced primary care...

The revised manuscript is open for public comments. Several of GAPNA’s members worked on this document, including our chairperson, Melodee Harris, and current board member, Sherry Greenberg, Linda Keilman and George Byron Peraza-Smith. View the document and post comments by June 11, 2018.

New Article Addition to the Clinical Research Corner - Ambulatory care practices are not utilizing many functions available with health information technology (IT), according to new AHRQ-funded research. The study, published in The American Journal of Managed Care and based on...

ADVANCE asks nurses how it is that they go about meeting the needs of today’s patient population in a value-based healthcare environment. "Participating in this forum are Michelle Moccia, DNP, ANP-BC, CCRN, president of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association and program director at St. Mary Mercy Livonia (MI) Hospital...";

New Article Addition to the Clinical Research Corner - Elderly people walk at a slower speed and tire more quickly because of loss of strength and mass in leg muscles, according to research published recently in The Journal of Physiology. Using computer simulations, researchers found these...     From the GAPNA Newsletter -