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Geriatric NP Academy is an educational platform created for nurse practitioners who care for complex older adults.

It was designed to provide practical, clinically relevant education that helps NPs strengthen their decision-making, improve confidence, and feel more supported in the high-stakes world of geriatric care.

Through courses, clinical frameworks, case-based learning, and real-world tools, Geriatric NP Academy helps nurse practitioners move beyond memorizing guidelines and into structured, thoughtful clinical reasoning.

This community is especially helpful for:

• Nurse practitioners working in geriatrics, primary care, long-term care, assisted living, skilled nursing, home-based care, or PACE programs 
• New or experienced NPs who want stronger clinical reasoning skills 
• NPs who feel overwhelmed by complex patients, polypharmacy, cognitive decline, falls, frailty, or frequent changes in condition 
• Providers who want practical tools they can actually use in real patient care 
• NPs who want to make safer, more confident decisions when patients do not follow the textbook 

If you have ever thought, “There has to be a better way to organize all of this,” this academy was built for you.

Instead of overwhelming learners with more facts, the academy teaches NPs how to think through complex clinical situations using structured frameworks and real-world examples.

The education is designed to be:

• Practical 
• Case-based 
• Clinically relevant 
• Easy to apply in practice 
• Focused on complex older adults 
• Created by a nurse practitioner who understands the realities of the role 

This is education built for the messy middle of geriatric care — where patients are complicated, answers are not always obvious, and clinical judgment matters.

Older adults often present differently than younger patients. A decline in function, worsening confusion, falls, weakness, incontinence, or behavior changes may be the first sign that something is wrong. The model helps NPs organize their thinking by looking beyond a single diagnosis and considering the full picture.

The model focuses on key geriatric decision-making areas such as:

• Function 
• Cognition 
• Medications 
• Geriatric syndromes 
• Goals of care 

Instead of asking only, “What diagnosis explains this?” the model helps NPs ask, “What changed, what matters most, what risks are present, and what is the safest next step?”

No. You do not have to be a geriatric specialist to benefit from Geriatric NP Academy.

Any nurse practitioner who cares for older adults can benefit from learning a more structured approach to geriatric assessment and decision-making.

This includes NPs in primary care, internal medicine, urgent care, hospital-based care, long-term care, skilled nursing, assisted living, home care, and specialty settings.

If older adults are part of your patient population, this education can help you better understand the complexity behind their symptoms, risks, medications, and care goals.

Yes! Each course will include CME/CE credits.