title: Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity: results after the first 10 years and implications for the future.
abstract: In 2000, the John A. Hartford Foundation launched a multi-million dollar investment in Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) at the American Academy of Nursing (AAN). After a decade of focused support to increase scholarship, research, leadership, and institutional collaboration, is there evidence this program is successful in achieving its goals? Equally important, as the need for quality geriatric nursing care increases with the expanding aging population and associated complex health conditions, how does the experience and outcomes of this program inform nursing's future? To address both questions, the authors first provide an overview of geriatric nursing prior to and up to the time the BAGNC program began, then review results of an external evaluation of the BAGNC program, and finally propose goals and strategies for the next 20 years of academic geriatric nursing.
authors.affiliation: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. Pfrankl1@gmu.edu
authors.forename: Patricia D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Franklin
authors.forename: Patricia G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Archbold
authors.forename: Claire M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Fagin
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Galik
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Siegel
authors.forename: Shoshanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sofaer
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Firminger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D057191:Capacity Building; D005181:Faculty, Nursing / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D005582:Foundations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012109:Research Support as Topic; D014146:Training Support; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce