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Geropsychiatric Nursing Education: Challenge and Opportunity

Diana Lynn Morris

University Center on Aging & Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, dlm5{at}po.cwru.edu, diana.morris{at}case.edu

Janet Mentes

University of California, Los Angeles

With the emergence of the mental health needs of older adults as a foremost public health concern of the 21st century, the melding of gerontological and psychiatric expertise among frontline health care providers assumes unprecedented urgency. Undergraduate and graduate educational preparation and continuing education learning strategies to develop and support a geropsychiatric nurse workforce will be critical to enhancing the quality of lives of millions of older persons. Opportunities abound for creativity in curriculum development accompanied by systematic evaluation of workforce outcomes and dissemination of successful educational models. Attention to these needs will facilitate long-stymied efforts to achieve advanced practice certification in geropsychiatric nursing.

Key Words: curriculum standards • blended roles • clinical practica • credentialing and certification

Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, Vol. 12, No. 2, 105-115 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1078390306292154
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