Additional Resources

BAGNC Calendar
Opportunities in Aging Research and Leadership
Comprehensive Resource Sites, Publications, Model Programs, Etc.
Organizations Addressing the Nursing Needs of Older Americans
Geriatric Critical Care Research (GCCNR) Group
Resources for Scholars and Fellows (including forms)

Opportunities in Research and Leadership

• The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis seeks applications for two postdoctoral fellows to work under the guidance of expert mentors while helping to position the school as a leader in nursing research and education. The school will open for enrollment in fall 2010, giving these two postdoctoral fellows an opportunity to be part of a founding faculty and fellows cohort. One postdoctoral fellow should have a research focus in aging, the second in health policy and system change. Applicants must have a doctorate degree in nursing or another health-related field. The positions will be open until filled with an initial application deadline of May 15, 2009.
  

• 2009 Summer Institute on Aging Research Preconference Workshop for Nurses
  
  The National Institute on Aging's Summer Institute on Aging Research offers new researchers intensive exposure to issues and challenges in research on aging. The Preconference is a collaborative effort to increase nurse researchers' capacity to design and conduct research in aging with human participants.
  
  
• Mayday Pain & Society Fellowship: A Media & Policy Initiative
  
  The fellowship trains physicians, nurses, social workers, scientists, and legal scholars in the pain management community to go beyond their own professional pursuits to become thought leaders and advocates for change in the understanding and management of pain.
  
  
• Practice Change Fellows Program: Enhancing Leadership in Geriatric Care - Applications due in April
  
  This program is designed to develop health care leaders who can effectively promote high quality care to older adults. Up to ten Practice Change Fellows will be selected from applicants who hold a leadership role in a health organization or institution and have service line or programmatic responsibility for providing care to older adults. Fellows receive $90,000 over the two-year program and work with accomplished national mentors to design, implement, and evaluate a new project.
  
  
• CANS Outstanding Nurse Scientist Award
  
  The purpose of this award is to acknowledge The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) members whose sustained programs of research have had significant impact on nursing and healthcare knowledge development with recognizable benefit for nursing practice and healthcare. Learn more about this award and/or submit a nomination.
  
  
• CANS Brilliant Future New Investigator Award
  
  This award was created to recognize the contributions of scientists early in their research careers who show extraordinary potential to develop sustained programs of research, certain to have significant impact on the science and practice of nursing and healthcare. Learn more about this award and/or submit a nomination.
  

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Comprehensive Resource Sites, Publications, Model Programs, Etc.

• Health AGEnda is the John A. Hartfor Foundation's new blog designed to stimulate discussion about how the needs of the growing number of older adults are incorporated into the country’s ongoing efforts to improve health care. The blog features posts from the Foundation’s leadership and program staff—all experts in geriatrics training, practice, and research
• The American Academy of Nursing's Raise the Voice video highlights two Edge Runners, Donna Shalala, the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Risa Lavizzo-Mouray, MD, MBA, President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
• Research in Gerontological Nursing. The new, quarterly, peer-reviewed journal began publication in January 2008 and serves as a forum for research in gerontological nursing.
• Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce. The Institute of Medicine charged the ad hoc Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans to determine the health care needs of Americans over 65 years of age and to assess those needs through an analysis of the forces that shape the health care workforce, including education and training, models of care, and public and private programs.
• ConsultGeriRn: A comprehensive web site containing geriatric nursing information: both for "stat" and for just about everything you need to know in caring for older adults.
• Caring for Older Americans: Recommendations for Building A National Program For Graduate Nursing Education in Gerontology [pdf]
• The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing focuses on disseminating best practices to nursing students, faculty, practicing nurses, and policy makers.
• JAHF Centers of Geriatric Nursing Excellence are schools of nursing which have demonstrated the highest level of commitment to the field, have both current experience and future potential to build the next generation of Gerontological nurses, have outstanding capacity in research, practice and education, manifest leadership that transcends their own institution and meet generally accepted criteria of excellence.
• Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative (HGNI) confronts the issues associated with an aging patient population through an array of programs.
• The Paul Beeson Physician Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Program fosters the independent research careers of clinically trained investigator.
• IMPACT: Improving Mood - Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment for Late Life Depression. Evidence-based depression care.
• A New Look at the Old. The goal of this series is to highlight common issues and treatments in geriatric nursing.
  

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Organizations Addressing the Nursing Needs of Older Americans

• Alliance for Aging Research
• American Academy of Nursing
• The Gerontological Society of America
• National Council on Aging
• National Institute on Aging
• White House Conference on Aging

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Geriatric Critical Care Nursing Research (GCCNR) Group

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