title: Nursing homes as a clinical site for training geriatric health care professionals.
abstract: Nursing homes can be ideal clinical teaching and learning environments for acquiring geriatric specialty and interdisciplinary team skills, particularly those regarding assessment, care planning, management, monitoring, and collaborating in an interdisciplinary milieu. Little is known as to how geriatric specialty training programs use nursing homes to meet expected specialty competencies, or the types of clinical experiences in nursing homes required by academic geriatric training programs. This article describes the expectations of 5 clinical health care disciplines (dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work) and nursing home administration regarding desirable nursing home characteristics that support gaining geriatric competencies. The issues involved in using nursing homes as supportive educational environments in geriatric education are discussed.
authors.affiliation: The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University, College of Nursing, New York, NY 10003-6677, USA. mathy.mezey@nyu.edu
authors.forename: Mathy
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mezey
authors.forename: Ethel
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mitty
authors.forename: Sarah G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Burger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004521:Educational Measurement; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D011361:Professional Competence; D013038:Specialization