Nurse competence in aging overview.
This article provides an overview of the Nurse Competence in Aging (NCA) project. Specifically, it reviews demographics, articulates the need to increase the gerontology presence within specialty nursing, and analyzes the way in which NCA is addressing that need in partnership with specialty associations.
Division of Nursing, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing, 246 Greene Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003-6677 USA. jessica.schider@nyu.edu
Jessica
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Scholder
Sarah
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Kagan
Mary
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Jean Schumann
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