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About this Webinar

This expert panel webinar explores the role of geriatric emergency (GEM) nurses and provides guidance about how to implement a GEM nurse in your geriatric ED.

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Webinar Details

Expert Panel

Michelle Moccia, DNP, ANP-BC, GS-C.
Nurse Practitioner
Avalon Physician Services
Northville, MI

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Pamela Martin, FNP-BC, APRN GS-C
Nurse Practitioner – Geriatric Emergency Department
Yale New Haven Health
New Haven, CI

Nana Asomaning, RN, MNScN(NP)
ED Patient Care Director,
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto, Canada

Aiofe Dillon, ANP
St. James Hospital
Dublin, Ireland

Moderated By

Don Melady

Don Melady

MD
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Goals

  1. To hear from several geriatric nurse care coordinators (GEM nurses) about their approach to the role.
  2. To describe the range of activities that a GEM nurse can play in a Geriatric ED.
  3. To provide direction and guidance about how to implement a GEM nurse in your ED, large or small
  4. To consider alternatives to nurse-led models of care coordination.

Supporting Materials

Geriatric Transitional Care Nurses and How They Could Help Your ED

In this episode of GEMCast, Dr. Christina Shenvi is joined by Dr. Ula Hwang and Pamela Martin to learn about the role of Geriatric Transitional Care Nurses and how they can be incorporated into an ED to improve care for older patients

Nurse-Led Geriatric Case Management – the GEM Nurse Role

A general FAQ about Geriatric Emergency Case Management (GEM).

Frailty in the Geriatric ED

Listen to an expert panel discuss frailty in the geriatric ED, and why it’s an important concept in the care of older adults.

Full list of resources

geriEM Educational Posters

Silver Book II: Holistic assessment of older people