Connecting the Dots: Geriatric Nursing, Education, & Clinical Simulation

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳大学教堂山护理学院将于2009年4月2日至3日在北卡罗莱纳州达勒姆研究三角公园的喜来登帝国酒店和会议中心举办一场名为“连接点：老年护理，教育和临床模拟”的会议。本次会议由南澳弗林德斯大学共同主办。本次会议的总体目标是向负责老年护理的利益相关者广泛传播同行评议的海报和讲台演讲的结果，并展示使用人类患者模拟器和标准化患者和其他技术的老年临床模拟的演示。会议的一个具体目标是制定研究重点，重点是评估这种教学模式在改变老年能力水平和改善老年护理实践方面的有效性。因此，会议与保健研究和质量局的使命是一致的，会议将讨论保健研究和质量局优先考虑的老年人和妇女群体。在计划这次会议时，没有为网络传播和同行评议期刊的特刊编制预算。由于运输和其他成本的急剧增加，以及需要向生活在农村和服务不足地区的人们广泛传播这些信息，该申请要求为网络和印刷传播提供资金。对会议的关键环节进行录像，并在北卡罗来纳大学护理学院的网站上发布相关的联系时间，这将有助于确保会议的广泛传播。被邀请的论文将发表在《护理继续教育杂志》的同行评议特刊上，该杂志将达到2600名订阅者。此外，这些期刊文章将通过PubMed向公众开放。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing will offer a conference "Connecting the Dots: Geriatric Nursing, Education, and Clinical Simulation" at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Conference Center in Research Triangle Park in Durham North Carolina on April 2-3, 2009. This conference is cosponsored by Flinders University of South Australia. The overall aim of this conference is to broadly disseminate to stakeholders responsible for geriatric nursing care the findings from peer-reviewed poster and podium presentations on, and to showcase demonstrations of, geriatric clinical simulations using the human patient simulator and standardized patients and other technologies. A specific goal of the conference is to develop research priorities that focus on evaluation of the effectiveness of this teaching modality in changing geriatric competency levels and improving geriatric nursing practice. Thus the conference is consistent with the mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and it will address AHRQ priority populations of the elderly and women. Web-based dissemination and a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal of this conference's findings were not budgeted when this conference was planned. Due to the sharp increase in transportation and other costs and the need to have widespread dissemination of this information to those who live in rural and under-served areas, this application requests funds for web-based and print dissemination. Videotaping key aspects of the conference and posting them with associated contact hours on a University of North Carolina School of Nursing website will help assure that broad dissemination of the conference will occur. Invited papers will be published in a peer-reviewed special issue of the Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing that will reach 2600 journal subscribers. In addition these journal articles will be available to the public through PubMed.