♦ Therapeutic communication

♦ Establishing rapport

♦ Counseling patients

♦ Discussion of difficult situations (prognoses, end-of-life, etc.)

♦ Health promotion/disease prevention

♦ Prevention guidelines

♦ Impact of aging and the continuum of aging

♦ Nutrition

♦ Health screenings

♦ Risk analyses

♦ Influences on care (age, life transitions, socioeconomic, spiritual, psychosocial, and cultural)

♦ Evaluating outcomes

♦ Teaching and learning principles

♦ Health care and public policy

♦ Care settings

♦ Cultural sensitivity and competency

♦ Spiritual assessment

♦ Patient and family teaching

♦ Advanced directives

♦ Power of attorney

♦ Informed consent/assent

♦ Guardianship

♦ Ethical principles

♦ Patient rights

♦ Malpractice

♦ Decision-making capacity

♦ Caregiver stress

♦ Violence

♦ Abuse

♦ Neglect

♦ Needs assessments

♦ Billing, coding, and reimbursement

♦ Federal mandates

♦ Access to care

♦ Anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology

♦ Geriatric syndromes (falls, incontinence, etc.)

♦ Delirium, dementia, and depression

♦ Medical history source information

♦ Advanced diagnostic reasoning

♦ Comprehensive health histories

♦ Functional histories

♦ Screening and diagnostic testing

♦ Differential diagnoses

♦ Evidence-based practice

♦ Research utilization

♦ Clinical practice guidelines

♦ Evaluating evidence

♦ Best practices

♦ Epidemiology

♦ Infection control

♦ Disease prevention

♦ Infectious diseases

♦ Documentation

♦ Reporting infectious diseases

♦ Clinical decision-making

♦ Pharmacotherapeutics

♦ Multidisciplinary and planned transitions of care

♦ Prioritization

♦ Coordination of care

♦ Palliative and end-of-life care