Nursing students, faculty attend geriatric nursing conference
Three Nursing faculty members, Pam Kirk, Helen Harris and Vicki Teske, and nine students—Courtney Conyers, Amy Lavalla, Heather Erickson, Tim Yancey, Melinda Thompson, Piper Delapointe, Deb Wolff, Lisa Murr Johnson and Alicia Saue—attended the Students Investing in Nursing’s Future-Geriatrics (SIN-G) conference held April 8 in Alexandria, Minn.
Thirty-seven nursing students from eight schools in west central Minnesota participated in this one-of -a-kind event focusing on a career in geriatric nursing. Nursing students were selected to participate in the SIN-G project through a competitive application process and an expressed interest to learn more about, and potentially specialize in, nursing care of older adults.
To jump start their professional geriatric nursing career, students were given a year membership in the National Gerontological Nursing Association.
The conference was supported through a grant from the West Central Initiative with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. WCI is a regional community foundation that works to strengthen west central Minnesota by encouraging business and employment opportunities, providing training and support to workers and their families, working with communities and the region to help them thrive, and promoting philanthropy.
The attached news release contains more details about the conference and the need to address the needs of an aging population.