Strictly Business: Nurses receive grant for continuing education

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 2:09 PM CST

Two nurses from Tekamah's Golden LivingCenter, Tammy Lippold and Sheila Maryott, are among 23 enrolled in a program to improve quality in long-term care.

The Nebraska nurses have been selected to enroll in a gerontologic nursing course through the Midwest Geriatric Nursing Quality Improvement program. The course is part of a $500,000, two-year grant to improve care in regional long-term care facilities.

The 10-week course, taken through the Internet, begins in January. It will help registered nurses employed in long-term care facilities develop knowledge and clinical competence in care of the elderly. It also will prepare them for the American Nurses Credentialing Center Gerontological Nurse Certification exam. Passing the exam demonstrates the highest level of excellence in geriatric nursing care.

Over the next two years, the course will be offered four times. The grant also offers a nurse executive educational program to develop leadership and management skills for nurse managers and administrators employed in long-term care facilities.

The Vetter Foundation of Nebraska is the lead foundation for the grant and the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing is the lead organizational partner.

The grant is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Northwest Health Foundation's Partners Investing in Nursing's Future program, a unique national initiative to help address the long-term shortage of nurses across the country. The RWJF and NWHF matched $250,000 in funds raised by the University of Nebraska Foundation through 13 local funding partners.

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