Incorporating geriatric content into an undergraduate parent-child nursing course--an innovative approach

The purpose of this article is to describe the development of an innovative educational strategy for incorporating geriatric content into an undergraduate parent-child nursing course. Faculty supervised the development of an interactive media-based module that met content objectives for the parent-child course and included the functional assessment of the geriatric client living in a home setting. Students found this module to be a creative, user-friendly, and practical application of theory to a realistic clinical situation. This strategy successfully infused geriatric content into a pediatric course to enhance students' abilities to care for older adults.