Teaching Strategies

Developed by the Panel of Experts on Geriatric Nursing Education, these teaching strategies are designed to be used throughout the curriculum. They provide faculty with tools to help them incorporate ACES into both classroom and clinical learning experiences.

The teaching strategies offered in this section are guides for faculty to develop encounters with older adults that are intentional and that incorporate all or some of the ACES Essential Nursing Actions:

• Assess function and expectations
• Coordinate and manage care
• Use Evolving knowledge
• Make Situational decisions

Hints to start the process of curriculum change to more fully incorporate content about older adults into the nursing curriculum:

• Identify the faculty members who have consistently served as change agents; engage them in the process of curriculum exploration.
• Talk about the care of older adults with your faculty. Ask each faculty member to use a "Gerontological Lens" for formulating case studies and simulation activities.
• At graduation, give awards that focus on excellence in care of older adults.
• Engage in course mapping to assess the level of content integration about care of older adults across the curriculum. Use the Essential Nursing Actions to begin the process.

All of the teaching strategies use the following template:

• Title of the teaching strategy
• Overview of the teaching strategy, including a brief description of the learning activities and suggestions how the teaching strategy can be used in a wide variety of settings. It also includes the learner level when appropriate.
• Learning Objectives
• Getting Started: This section presents suggested learning activities.
• Materials: This section includes selected evidence-based assessment tools, case studies and other resources.
• Suggested Readings (when appropriate)
• Identification of the ACES Essential Nursing Action(s) that the teaching strategy is designed to address.
• Identification of the NLN Education Competencies that the teaching strategy has been designed to address. Click here to link to NLN Education Competencies (Human Flourishing, Nursing Judgment, Professional Identity, Spirit of Inquiry)
• Author information

The following teaching strategies are available at this time:

• Assessment of Older Adults in Long-Term Care Settings
• End-of-Life Decision Making for Older Adults: Competent and Compassionate Care
• Student-Led Geriatric Nursing Conference: Evidence in Practice
• Geriatric Syndromes
• Examining Risks and Benefits to Enhance Quality of Life

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