Jennifer Hayden Merritt-Hackel

Ms. Merritt-Hackel has taught nursing students in the adult and gerontological nurse practitioner programs periodically over the last twenty years at the University of Michigan. She has also served as a preceptor for gerontological and adult primary care nurse practitioner students in the clinical setting. Most recently she was a teaching assistant in community health nursing for nursing students returning for a second bachelor’s degree at Columbia University School of Nursing. She followed twelve of these students for two months on the medical surgical floors of Weill Cornell Hospital in New York City. She has presented a wide range of lectures to adult and gerontological nurse practitioners as well as diabetes educators. She presented a webinar on “Diabetes in the Elderly” for the American Association of Diabetes Educators in January 2010. In addition, she gave a lecture on elder abuse to graduate students at Columbia University in Spring of 2010. She has offered community health education classes in caring for aging relatives and diabetes at the University of Michigan through the Geriatric Center Clinic, many of which were attended by nursing students to mentor the role in community health education.