CELEBRATING THIRTY YEARS OF AGING
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CULTIVATE LEADERS IN GERIATRICS

1983

Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy

2007-2012 While many Hartford leadership initiatives focus on academics and researchers, the Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy prepares nurse leaders who work in clinical environments, such as hospitals and long-term care settings. Nurses who assume management positions in clinical settings often lack the skills to effectively lead interdisciplinary teams of health professionals. The Leadership Academy provides them with formal training, mentorship, peer networking, and the sense of authority needed to enact change in the way care is delivered to older adults.

Senior leaders report that their participation in the program resulted in significant organizational improvements, such as reduced use of psychotropic drugs, reduced staff turnover and, increased retention of staff. Fellows exert leadership within their professional organizations and states. For example, Amy Cotton, MSN, FNP-BC, a fellow and subsequently a mentor, is the president of the National Gerontological Nurses Association.

(Top and below, left) The Inaugural 2008 Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy Fellows.

(Below, right) Amy E. Cotton, MSN, FNP, a Geriatric Nursing Leadership Academy Fellow, here with a resident at Rosscare in Bangor, ME, learned to engage stakeholders at Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems to improve the standard of care for older adults.
2007

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