The Knowledge Center helps bridge the geriatric training gap and achieve real improvement at all levels...institutional, departmental and unit. The Knowledge Center houses the implementation resources and training programs you need to improve quality of care, raise staff satisfaction, meet Joint Commission standards and work toward Magnet inclusion.
The NICHE Leadership Training Program is an affordable, adaptable distance learning option to bring NICHE to your hospital. The six-week, web-based training program guides in the development and implementation of system change using NICHE methodologies. As a participant, you will receive on-demand access to experienced-based modules and tools to help you learn new clinical and organizational strategies.
The NICHE Planning and Implementation Guide provides the most current content for full implementation of NICHE in an acute care setting. The guide is written and updated by experienced professionals from NICHE sites, NICHE faculty, and other experts. This key document details a variety of approaches for adaptation of NICHE models to individual needs and circumstances.
NICHE Training and Education Courses include curriculums designed to provide the most current knowledge and skills in geriatric patient care to bedside nurses, patient care associates, and hospital personnel. Core curriculums include: Geriatric Resource Nurse (GRN), Gero Patient Care Associate (GPCA) and the NEW Introduction to Gerontology available now online.
NICHE Organizational Strategies are a series of toolkits designed to assist you in securing financial and organizational support for the NICHE program. These toolkits provide comprehensive guidance in the development of key initiatives within your organization that will ensure continuing improvement and sustained growth. Kits are included for certification, making a business case, sustainability, marketing, physician involvement, alignment with Magnet and more.
NICHE Clinical Improvement Models provide a roadmap to system-level adoption of clinical best practices. A series of modules guide you in the research, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of your own "best-fit" model. Modules are authored by experts in the field and supplemented by materials and expertise from experienced NICHE sites.
Developed by NICHE for use by its designated sites, the Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile (GIAP) enables hospitals to quantify staff knowledge, attitudes and perceptions in the care of geriatric patients. The reliability of the GIAP methodology is based on a history of over 30,000 staff-completed responses from more than 100 hospitals in 40 states. The profile is easy to administer and provides invaluable data for targeting areas for improvement.
Each NICHE education course has its own discussion board. These boards serve as forums for you to interact with others involved in the NICHE designation process, other NICHE sites and NICHE experts. On these discussion boards, you have the opportunity to exchange ideas, pose questions/requests and identify needs.
NICHE Webinar Series, Online Connect, focus on new, collaborative approaches for practice innovations, regulatory imperatives, and other timely topics. The webinars are often based on requested topics from past participants and are intended for practitioners interested in new ways to enhance practice improvement outcomes.
A powerful resource for everyone - the NICHE Encyclopedia is accessible to anyone with an interest in quality geriatric care: NICHE sites, non-NICHE sites, patients, family caregivers, students, etc. This comprehensive reference tool can help users answer a wide variety of health care questions. The Encyclopedia even has a special feedback function where users can comment on the entries and help NICHE improve the content.
The NICHE ListServ acts as an online communications conduit for NICHE hospitals nationwide and the NICHE Coordinating Center at the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. ListServ participants can pose questions; discuss problems and solutions; and share resources and experiences. The ListServ typically addresses issues that promote the exchange of geriatric nursing practice protocols and procedures and strategies to address geriatric patient syndromes.
There are a number of ways to preview NICHE Resources prior to participating in the NICHE program. Webinars and contact hours are available for purchase. Plus, the following NICHE Knowledge Center tools are available at no cost to healthcare professionals and others interested in pursuing NICHE designation:
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A variety of high profile marketing materials are available to NICHE designated hospitals to help communicate the geriatric care quality message. Housed in the NICHE Knowledge Center, the Media Kit contents are designed to promote hospitals as NICHE designated facilities to both internal and external audiences. An eight-page brochure called the “Guide to Using NICHE Marketing Materials & Resources” details all the available tools and is available to download from the NICHE Knowledge Center.
