Try This
A Good Idea
Description
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing seeks to shape the quality of health care older Americans receive by promoting the highest level of geriatric competence in all nurses. Try This, a publication of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, is a series of assessment tools where each issue focuses on a topic specific to the older adult population. The content is directed to orient and encourage all nurses to understand the special needs of older adults and utilize the highest standards of practice in caring for the elderly.
Goal / Mission
The goal of the Try This: Best Practices in Care for Older Adults series of assessment tools is to provide knowledge of best practices in the care of older adults that is:
- easily accessible
- easily understood
- easily implemented, and
- to encourage the use of these best practices by all direct care nurses
- easily accessible
- easily understood
- easily implemented, and
- to encourage the use of these best practices by all direct care nurses
Results / Accomplishments
More than 30 assessment tools are currently available via the Try This publication.
About this Promising Practice
Organization(s)
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Primary Contact
Alexis Melendez
New York University
Steinhardt School of Education
Division of Nursing
The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing
246 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 992-9416
adm6@nyu.edu
New York University
Steinhardt School of Education
Division of Nursing
The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing
246 Greene Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 992-9416
adm6@nyu.edu
Topics
Health / Older Adults
Organization(s)
The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing
Date of publication
2007
Date of implementation
1999
Location
New York, NY
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Target Audience
Older Adults