1. Developing an Online Gerontological Certificate
Anne Wilkinson MS, RN, CNE

2. Step 1: Inquiry of Community Needs
Consider your community
Urban
Rural
Suburban

3. Inquiry of Community Needs
Who are the community partners
Clinical agencies
Home health agencies
Hospice
Faith based partners
County Alliances Kenosha County Long Term Care Alliance

4. Inquiry of Community Needs
Needs assessment from Community Partners
Increasing acuity of admissions to LTC
Increasing admissions of older adults to acute care
Health Promotion
Home Health Needs
Access to Health Care
Workforce Development

5. Step 2: Convincing the College
Background and Significance
Recommendations from IOM – Committee on the Future of Nursing: Education  (2010)
Care of older adults is increasingly outside of acute care settings
Care of older adults will be a large and growing part of nursing in the future
Resources and partnerships in the community should be used to prepare nurses

6. Step 3: Analyze the Community Specific Aging

9. Step 4: Show the Future Need
Scarcity looming of adequately prepared healthcare workers
IOM Retooling for an Aging America, 2008
3 million nurses
< 1 % have specialized in geriatrics
Stierle et al., 2006

10. Step 5: Get to work! Form Advisory Committee with partners
Mission: job training and retraining; which recognizes the rapidly changing educational needs of county residents

11. Get to work! What are the pressing needs of your community partners?
Increased acuity Morale Pharmacology
Assessment Readmissions Staff Development

12. Step 6: Approve Curriculum
Advisory Committee approval
Nursing Program approval
College approval

13. 10-810-21 Gerontological and Rehabilitative Nursing Care
Principles of Gerontological Nursing
Assessment of the Older Adult
Rehabilitative Care and Chronic Disease Management

14. Student Comments
I really liked this course. It shed a lot of light on some topics I did not fully understand. It also gave a name to some of the things I saw happening but didn't quite know what to call them.
This week’s blog and content is timely for me. I have a patient that I think has benefitted from this content……
As  I like working the elderly, I appreciate all the information that was presented. It answered quite a few questions that I had and gave me valid information that I can pass on to others.

15. References
Division of Public Health, Office of Health Informatics (OHI). Retrieved from: Accessed June 2012.
Institute of Medicine. (2010). The future of nursing: Leading change, advancing health. Retrieved from
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). (2008). Retooling for an aging America: Building the health care workforce. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press.
Photos. Retrieved from: collections. Accessed May 20, 2017.