Connecting the Dots

Come Join Us!

Dear Friends of Nursing,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing and Flinders University School of Nursing and Midwifery in Adelaide, Australia, invite you to participate in Connecting the Dots: Geriatric Nursing, Education, and Clinical Simulation International Conference, April 2-3, 2009! The conference’s primary focus will be to address the urgent global need for nurses with state of the art geriatric nursing knowledge and competencies.

The world’s aging populations are creating new challenges to our health care systems and institutions. The Institute of Medicine’s recently issued report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce, emphasizes the need to meet these challenges. Caregivers increasingly find themselves practicing geriatric nursing regardless of their practice setting. Nurses on an international level must come together to share proven strategies and to devise new ones to assess and enhance caregivers’ clinical knowledge, skills, and competencies.

The conference will focus on global issues and solutions, invite best practices from all corners of the health care arena, and involve international experts. We will focus on innovative solutions to meet the challenges faced by nurse clinicians, educators, and leaders. Keynote speakers and discussion facilitators will emphasize:

Preparing the new nursing workforce and lifelong learning needs of seasoned caregivers
Trends and innovations in geriatric nursing education and practice
Educational uses of human patient simulator technologies

We look forward to your participation in this very exciting conference and a chance for us all to connect the dots!

With warm regards from the Conference Co-Chairs,


Mary H. Palmer, PhD, RN, FAAN The Umphlet Distinguished Professor in Aging UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing	Jan Paterson, PhD, GN, RM Cert, CP Cert, MNg Professor of Nursing (Aged Care) School of Nursing and Midwifery Flinders University of South Australia

Who Will Attend?

Over 200 nursing leaders, administrators, educators, clinicians and students
Public policy thought leaders and advocates, health insurers, manufacturers and publishers
Representing hospitals, medical centers, universities, colleges, long-term care facilities, associations and advocacy organizations
Attendees from the Americas, Australia, Europe, and Asia and from all aspects of health care – education and delivery

Conference Facts

34 paper presentations from the podium
60 poster presentations
Innovations Briefs: state-of-the-art teaching & practice highlights
Clinical simulation laboratory training sessions
Lots of interaction and Q&A
Visionary speakers with practical insights
International perspectives incorporated into program

The School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The number of ANCC Contact Hours to be awarded for all educational activities is being determined.

This conference is supported in part by a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, the Bureau of Health Professions, Division of Nursing under #D62HP01913, Comprehensive Geriatric Education Program, from 2003-2009.

Funding for this conference was made possible [in part] by 1 R13 HS018023-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. . Accessibility.