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| Hartford names GSTARS scholars |
The Hartford Center for Excellence in Geriatric Nursing announces this year’s Graduate Students in Training for Academic Roles and Service (GSTARS) scholarship recipients: Catherine Messinger, Ginger Rogers and Elizabeth Spies. Each will receive $5,000 per year in support for academic conferences and other endeavors. A requirement of the award is that the student’s area of interest in long-term care practice settings. As a PhD student, Messinger’s area of focus is pain in elders in long-term care settings. Rogers, who is working on a DNP degree, is a nurse care manager for EverCare in Omaha, the long-term-care division of United Health Care. Spies is in the MSN program with a focus on care management of elders in care settings. The goal of the Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence is to train nurse scientists and clinicians to ensure that best geriatric practices are produced and used by:Educational programs that prepare geriatric nurse clinicians;practicing clinicians and clinical agencies; policy-makers who control resources and influence the environments where older persons live; and the lay public to enhance self-care and caregiving skills. October, 2008 |
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