Recommendations for promoting university-wide gerontological education: findings from an exploratory study

Development of the Gerontological Nursing Competency Questionnaire

“…A number of organizations have developed competencies for gerontological nurse practitioners (American Association of Colleges of Nursing & John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing [AACN-Hartford], 2010; Chen et al, 2019; Dassel et al, 2019). There is also a growing body of literature calling for the development of standard gerontological competencies for nurse faculty (Marrs et al, 2022; Nikzad-Terhune et al, 2022; Waters et al, 2022; Wyman et al, 2019). However, with widespread agreement that faculty preparation is inadequate (Beltran & Miller, 2020; Damron-Rodriguez et al, 2019), there is no accepted instrument to assess the competency of nurse faculty who are teaching the future gerontological nursing workforce.…”