Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Skills Education Programme for Nurses – Can You See the Big Picture? (Big Picture)
Aim
Description
As the aging population grows in Europe, so does the risk of chronic diseases along with the decline in functional status and frailty. Nurses need comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) skills to help older people live more active lives. Successful CGA improves older persons’ quality of life, delays the progression of frailty, reduces hospital admissions and the length of hospital stays.
By developing a new, innovative education programme in the CGA sphere, the project BigPicture will advance professional qualification of nurses and strengthen existing knowledge, as well as improve their competencies in line with the skills required in the future. The project fosters innovation capacity in gerontological patient care through knowledge exchange and collaboration among vocational education and training providers, universities, and labour market participants.
The curriculum will be developed in the form of continuing and life learning education of certified nurses. During the project, it will be integrated into five EU higher education institutions as elective study courses.
Project partners
- Rīga Stradiņš University
- Turku University of Applied Sciences
- Åland University of Applied Sciences
- Tallinn Health Care College
- University of Iceland
- VARHA – The wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland
- University of Thessaly
- LudusXR
- Nosileia Tora (Νοσηλεία Τώρα)
