3rd Annual Heartland Interprofessional Education (HIPE) Conference
The Heartland Interprofessional Education (HIPE) Conference will focus on interprofessional education and collaborative practice aligning with the definitions and competencies in the Core Competencies of Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPEC, 2016).
Commissioned Paper for The Future of Nursing: Social Determinants of Health- Nursing, Health Professions and Interprofessional Education at a Crossroads
The National Center was honored to be commissioned to submit a paper on "Social Determinants of Health: Nursing, Health Professions and Interprofessional Education at a Crossroads" to the National Academy of Medicine to accompany its recent report "The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (2021)". Findings and recommendations from the commissioned paper can be found throughout the report.
The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity (2021)
Contributors
National Academy of Medicine; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020–2030; Mary Wakefield, David R. Williams, Suzanne Le Menestrel, and Jennifer L. Flaubert, Editors
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Nexus Summit 2021 Blog
Read the new report from the National Academy of Medicine- "The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity"
https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/the-future-of-nursing-2020-2030
Essentials of Cardiovascular Care for Older Adults (ECCOA)
Transforming cardiovascular health and improving heart health is a mission of the American College of Cardiology (ACC). This online resource provides evidence-based practice information and slide decks regarding a variety of topics related to geriatric cardiology. In addition, the ACC has a free online case-based curriculum covering key features of aging impacting cardiovascular disease including pharmacology, physiology, hypertension, heart failure, syncope, valvular disease, peripheral arterial disease, perioperative care, palliative care, decision-making.
Older Adults: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes--2020
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) published "Older Adults: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes--2020" which includes the ADA's current clinical practice recommendations and is intended to provide the components of diabetes care, general treatment goals and guidelines, and tools to evaluate quality of care.
Delirium Instruments
The Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP) is a comprehensive, evidence-based, patient care program that provides optimal care for older persons in the hospital. Dr. Sharon Inouye and her colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine originally designed HELP to prevent delirium among hospitalized older persons. This site requires establishing an account to access the free materials.
STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 2
The STOPP/START Toolkit Supporting Medication Review, arranged by physiological systems, assists in the review of older adults' prescriptions (STOPP) and includes guidelines to alert the practitioner to the right treatment (START). It also has references to drug class duplication, drug-drug, and drug-disease interactions. The START tool highlights under-prescription or omission of clinically indicated, evidence-based medications. The Supplementary Material file has the full set of STOPP/START guidelines.
Obesity in Older Adults: Succeeding in a Complex Clinical Situation
Obesity in older adults provokes serious problems. In this report from The Gerontological Society of America (GSA), the evaluation, consequences, and clinical management of obesity and overweight are reviewed with focus on the unique challenges of this condition in older adults with other chronic diseases, mobility defects, and other compromises in activities of daily living.