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Gerontologic nurse practitioner preceptor guide.

Geriatric nurse practitioners (GNPs) often serve as clinical preceptors for nurse practitioner students. The Nursing Interest Group of the John A. Hartford Foundation's Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training Program recognized a need for a condensed guide that clarifies the role of a GNP preceptor. This guide uses information from the literature to clarify the role of the preceptor, offer suggestions for clinical teaching, provide guidance to determine expectations for student performance, and delineate the progression of a nurse practitioner student. This article reviews the contents of the guide and offers suggestions for its use in clinical practice.

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Geriatric competencies for RNs in hospitals.

Nurses in staff development are responsible for assuring nurses' competence in the delivery of care. Older patients are the predominant population in hospitals, yet there are no instruments that specifically assess the competency of nurses to deliver care to older patients. This article reports on the development and testing of an instrument, Geriatric Competencies for RNs in Hospitals, and makes recommendations as to how staff development educators can use the geriatric competency instrument with staff nurses.

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