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The Teaching Nursing Home series is 7-online courses and case studies that guide schools of nursing and nursing homes in creating or improving academic/practice partnerships that benefit residents, their families, students, faculty, and staff. The Teaching Nursing Home Model began in the 1980s and was led by Dr. Mathy Mezey, the founder of HIGN at NYU Meyers. NYU worked with Ann Kolanowski, PhD, RN, FAAN, to update the series and convert it to online interactive courses. 

The Teaching Nursing Home series prepares nursing home supervisory staff and nursing school faculty to develop academic-practice partnerships. This series describes how to create clinical rotations in nursing homes that allow students to care for older adults with complex conditions and how to provide exposure to and interaction with healthcare teams. It enhances faculty supervision that fosters the student’s appreciation of both the complexity of the care and the opportunities to promote quality of life in nursing home residents.