AgeWISE Nurses Graduate, Next Cohort Begins July 20

 

 

The following 16 Methodist Hospital nurses, representing seven units, graduated from the Geropalliative Care Nurse Residency Program on June 19 to become AgeWISE nurses. Within the next six months, the nurses will sit for certification in either Gerontological or Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing, or in their unit specialty as an outcome of the residency.

 

Cohort #7 AgeWISE Graduates:

 

6N Progressive Care Unit Blake Smith Jason Heimes   6S Oncology/Surgery Unit Dana Salerno Kim Hook   7N Intensive Care Unit Lexy Quandt Katie Pistillo   7S Acute Care for Elders Heather Luchiari Tilly Beaudette Kellie Wachal Jackie Escusar

8N Ortho/Neuro Unit Rochelle Swanson Liz Kirchner     8S Medical Surgical Unit Alix Sandbothe Emily Charvat   9N/S Cardiac Megan Wessling Courtney Woodward

 

About the AgeWISE Program

The AgeWISE program promotes the crucial role nurses play in making the hospital experience better and safer for older patients. Methodist Hospital now has 122 AgeWISE nurses on staff infusing Geropalliative care nursing principles throughout the hospital.

 

Methodist Hospital continues to be a national leader in AgeWISE and has graduated more AgeWISE nurses than any of the original six pilot hospitals selected in 2010. This program is a collaborative between the hospital and our department of nursing at Nebraska Methodist College.

 

AgeWISE nurses report gaining enhanced knowledge in geropalliative care to provide more specific and sensitive care to their patients, as well as a sense of empowerment and increased confidence when having difficult conversations with patients, families, and physicians related to geropalliative care.  

 

New Cohort Begins July 20

A new cohort of 20 AgeWISE nurse residents begins July 20, 2015. The residents spend two days per month in classroom seminars and at various community clinical sites. They are learning knowledge and skills in Geropalliative Care which enhances their confidence and empowers them to provide evidence-based care to older adults and their families.

 

Cohort #8 AgeWISE Residents:

 

6 North Rachel Coufal Janet Syslo Heather Scott Mariah Selby 6 South Amy Hartigan Abby Hawthorne   7 South Molly Knutson Natalie Jones Lindsey Romero Stevi Roberts Evelyn Merkel

8 North Yen Nguyen     8 South Brittany Seagren Schyler Schriever     9 South Katie Anderson Therese Nevinski

Administrative Coordinators Marilyn Corum     MH ED Nicole Kuehl Jessica Lock     Palliative Care Jenna Eich

AGES: AgeWISE Geriatric Education Seminar Begins Sept. 15

To empower more nurses and staff to learn and implement best practices in geropalliative care, a CEU program called AGES (AgeWISE Geriatric Education Seminars) was introduced at Nebraska Methodist College. The upcoming 2015 sessions of this quarterly interprofessional educational program are September 15 and November 3.

 

To register or for more information, click here. 

 

Questions?

To learn more about AgeWISE, contact Deborah Conley at @email.