The ACE.S project, developed in collaboration with the Community College of Philadelphia and funded by the Independence Foundation, the
JAHF, Laerdal Medical, and, since 2012, the Hearst Foundations, enhances gerontological nursing content in pre-licensure programs through the development of the NLN ACE.S framework (Tagliareni, Cline, Mengel, McLaughlin, & King, 2012) and content enrichment.
Acknowledgment: The authors acknowledge with gratitude the contributions of Marie Boltz,
JAHF Director of Practice Initiatives, for permission to use and modify the GIAP; Regina Hendrix and Ida-Marguerite Twilley, nurse educators, for posting learning modules on HealthStream; David Maron for data entry; Leslie Vuncannon and Denise Baldwin for production of "Geriatric Nursing Pocket Consultant;" Qilu Yu for advice about statistical analysis; and the nurses for participation in the surveys and education interventions.