Integrating Gerontological Content into Advanced Practice Nursing Education

This text integrates content on gerontological care into curricula in non-gerontological APN programs. The book focuses on ways to incorporate the content into already existing programs without requiring major curricular changes. The authors share almost 50 years of combined experience of struggling with the answers to these and other curricular questions as well as specific examples of strategies for inclusion of gerontological content. The authors present content related to the rationale and need to integrate gerontological content into APN curricula, challenges to inclusion of this content, strategies to address these challenges, and gerontological content that needs to be included. The book also contains chapters which focus on course-specific gerontological content, competencies addressed by this content, teaching/learning strategies, and evaluation methods for integrating this content into graduate nursing core, APN core, and specialty courses. Strategies to facilitate the inclusion of clinical experiences focused on care of older adults are included as well. Additionally, the book provides detailed lists of print media and internet resources.