Lynn McCleary
“They just have more complex needs,” said Lynn McCleary, associate professor in Brock University’s department of nursing.
In response, Brock University is hosting a conference this week to get the most recent information about geriatric nursing into the hands of instructors.
“We’re hoping they will come away from this and bring the information to their institutions and to their students,” said McCleary.
Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Initiative for Care of the Elderly, the two-day event is being billed as a “knowledge exchange,” McCleary said.
Part of the challenge of training nurses is that instructors tend to be experts in a particular field, but not in geriatrics which cuts across most areas of nursing, she said.
So the thrust behind the conference is to equip nursing teachers with information they either don’t know or don’t know how to access.
“The hope is that we can use this event to network afterward and eventually start effecting policy decisions,” she said.
McCleary said while some think that having a single course on geriatric care is the way to go, others believe adding geriatric information to other courses is more useful.
“My own view is that we should do both,” she said.
The conference begins Wednesday and ends Friday. More than 30 nursing educators are expected to attend.
© 2009, Sun Media
May 5, 2009
CANADA: Educating educators about geriatric nursing
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ST. CATHARINES, Ontario / The Standard / April 5, 2009
By Grant LaFleche, Standard Staff
The fact is that Canada is getting older. As people age, they need more medical attention.
One in seven elderly people require hospital care and they stay in a hospital three times longer than younger people.
Lynn McCleary
“They just have more complex needs,” said Lynn McCleary, associate professor in Brock University’s department of nursing.
In response, Brock University is hosting a conference this week to get the most recent information about geriatric nursing into the hands of instructors.
“We’re hoping they will come away from this and bring the information to their institutions and to their students,” said McCleary.
Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Initiative for Care of the Elderly, the two-day event is being billed as a “knowledge exchange,” McCleary said.
Part of the challenge of training nurses is that instructors tend to be experts in a particular field, but not in geriatrics which cuts across most areas of nursing, she said.
So the thrust behind the conference is to equip nursing teachers with information they either don’t know or don’t know how to access.
“The hope is that we can use this event to network afterward and eventually start effecting policy decisions,” she said.
McCleary said while some think that having a single course on geriatric care is the way to go, others believe adding geriatric information to other courses is more useful.
“My own view is that we should do both,” she said.
The conference begins Wednesday and ends Friday. More than 30 nursing educators are expected to attend.
© 2009, Sun Media
Lynn McCleary
“They just have more complex needs,” said Lynn McCleary, associate professor in Brock University’s department of nursing.
In response, Brock University is hosting a conference this week to get the most recent information about geriatric nursing into the hands of instructors.
“We’re hoping they will come away from this and bring the information to their institutions and to their students,” said McCleary.
Funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Initiative for Care of the Elderly, the two-day event is being billed as a “knowledge exchange,” McCleary said.
Part of the challenge of training nurses is that instructors tend to be experts in a particular field, but not in geriatrics which cuts across most areas of nursing, she said.
So the thrust behind the conference is to equip nursing teachers with information they either don’t know or don’t know how to access.
“The hope is that we can use this event to network afterward and eventually start effecting policy decisions,” she said.
McCleary said while some think that having a single course on geriatric care is the way to go, others believe adding geriatric information to other courses is more useful.
“My own view is that we should do both,” she said.
The conference begins Wednesday and ends Friday. More than 30 nursing educators are expected to attend.
© 2009, Sun Media
