NICHE offers variety of geriatric-specific, comprehensive, resources and tools that can help hospitals improve care to better meet the needs of their hospitalized older adult patients. Many of the NICHE tools are member-only resources. For more information on becoming a NICHE site visit Join.
NICHE provides the following essential tools and resources:
NICHE Planning and Implementation Guide
NICHE Planning and Implementation Guide (edition 2009) provides the most current content for beginning implementation of NICHE in an acute care setting. NICHE sites receive the Guide at the Leadership Conference (click here) The 2009 NICHE Planning and Implementation Guide will be available soon to NICHE sites.
NICHE Training and Education Programs
NICHE Training and Education Programs include curriculums designed to provide the most current knowledge and skills in geriatric care to bedside nurses, patient care associates, and hospital personnel.
NICHE Organizational Strategies
NICHE Organizational Strategies are a series of toolkits designed to assist you in securing financial and organizational support for the NICHE program in your hospital. Toolkits provide comprehensive approaches to developing key initiatives within your organization that will ensure continued growth.
NICHE Clinical Organizational Models
NICHE Clinical Organizational Models are a series of modules that provide a roadmap to facilitate system-level adoption of clinical best practices. NICHE Clinical Organizational Models utilize a four phase systematic process (described in the Overview) which guides you in the research, planning, implementation, and evaluation phases of model development and implementation.
NICHE Wiki
Coming soon, NICHE members will have access to the Niche Wiki, an interactive Wikipedia-type technology that enables users to share information about best practices in care of older adult patients.
