Nurse Practitioner
and Clinical Nurse Specialist Competencies for Older Adult Care
Nurse
Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist Competencies for Older Adult Care is
designed to help nurse educators integrate geriatric nursing content into the
graduate curriculum for Nurse Practitioners and Clinical Nurse Specialists who
provide care to older adults but are not specialists in gerontology. This document
is a complement to the previously published competencies titled Older
Adults: Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for Geriatric
Nursing Care and is produced jointly by AACN and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
