Embracing the challenges in graduate geropsychiatric nursing education: Findings from a national survey

Advances in geropsychiatric nursing: A decade in review

“…Notwithstanding extensive efforts to infuse geriatric mental health enhancements into existing competency statements, gaps persist in APRN programs' implementation, particularly within PMHN programs (Stephens et al, 2015). These challenges to meeting FON goals in educational preparation for nurses are largely attributed to a lack of faculty with expertise and clinical experience in geriatric mental health, as well as lack of funding and institutional desire to add a GPN program, track or minor to the curriculum (Harris, Buron, & Stephens, 2018). Additionally, lack of funding and support have contributed to limited resources including few current GPN textbooks at the graduate level from which educators can choose and lack of currency of many of the aforementioned developed web resources, such as those posted on POGOe.…”

“…Funding is needed for interprofessional team-based education and practice models to ensure all health professions students achieve Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. Additional ingredients for success include identifying appropriate clinical sites (particularly where an interprofessional practice model is in place), as well as training clinical preceptors in mental health of older adults and maximizing opportunities to participate in learning that is intentionally interprofessional (Evans, et al, 2012;Harris et al, 2018;IOM, 2010;IOM, 2012). For example, by expanding collaborations among GWEPs, VA programs and professional organizations, leaders can more effectively further their impact.…”

Geropsychiatric Nursing Leadership in Long-Term Care

“…Ten years later, in 2004, another survey by Kurlowicz and colleagues 12 (2007) concluded that there were few GPN programs and little integration of GPN content across graduate nursing specialties. In 2015, investigators conducted a follow-up national survey 13 , 14 and compared the results to earlier findings. They found little change in GPN content in graduate nursing education.…”