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Date:
December 12, 2002 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00 noon to 14:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room 5, LG1, Laboratory Block, Faculty of Medicine
Building, 21 Sassoon Road
Hong
Kong and the United States have similar ageing demographic profiles
in spite of their disparate population size. The worldwide nursing
workforce is experiencing what has been termed as a shortage of
unparalleled proportion. In part, nursing is currently unable to
meet burgeoning regional, national, and global demands for care
given the size of its workforce and available supports. However,
nursing remains the most critical discipline to meeting the needs
of individuals, families, and communities in ageing societies now
and in the future.
The
disparity between the need for nursing care and the nursing workforce
is most sharply demarcated in ageing societies where the burden
of chronic and acute illness related to age and disease escalates
daily. An important body of literature illustrates the dangers of
overextending nursing services in the face of this growing need.
Consequently, several initiatives to address expanding capacity
for geriatric nursing are underway in the United States. One of
the initiatives is to establish pilot programmes through which scientists,
educators, and clinicians are properly trained. Evaluation is concurrent
and shows promising results. However, the congruence of these programmes
has not been established in the United States and other ageing societies.
The issue that remains is how to merge short and long term achievements
with a policy appropriate to ageing societies in order to insure
these programmes.
This
seminar outlines current health care delivery and policy concerns
for ageing societies given the global shortfall of nursing education,
service, and research. Several demonstration initiatives are discussed
in relation to short and long term achievements and global translation.
Dr
Sarah Kagan is currently Associate Professor of Gerontological Nursing,
School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania. Sarah received her
M.S. degree in Gerontological Nursing in 1989 and a PhD degree in
Nursing in 1994, both from the University of California, San Francisco.
Her research interest focuses on the area of head and neck cancer.
She
is currently member of Gerontological Society of America, Oncology
Nursing Society, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association and Society
of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Nurses.
Sarah's
recent publications include:
- Beeber,
A. S. and Kagan S. H. (2002). Chronic Wound Management in Nurse
Practitioner Secrets, M. J. Goolsby, Ed. Philadelphia, PA: Hanley
and Belfus, Inc.
- Kagan,
S. H., Puppione, A. A., Beeber, A. S. Fillman, M., Adler, J.,
and Chalian, A. A. (2001). in Pressure Ulcers in Clinical Guidelines
for Advanced Practice Nursing with Older Adults, Cotter, V. T.
and Strumpf, N. E., Eds. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Kagan,
S. H. (in press). Research Critique for "Spotlight on Research"
Column (McCusker, J., Cole, M., Abrahamowicz, M., Han, L., Podoba,
J. E., and Ramman-Haddad, L. (2001). Environmental risk factors
for delirium in hospitalized older adults. Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society 49, 1327-1334.) ORL: Head and Neck Nursing.
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