Problem: America is aging, with those 65 years and older estimated to account for 20% of the population by 2030. With aging comes chronic disease and many older adults possess two or more. The inability to appropriately manage these chronic disease processes leads to debility and increase use of medical services. Dementia is a chronic disease, which the majority of health care providers fail to recognize especially those dementing processes that affect the frontal lobe and executive cognitive functioning. Purpose and Scope: The purpose of this capstone project was to describe the Advanced Practice Nurses’ (APN) attitudes concerning executive cognitive impairment (ECI) and knowledge regarding dementias of the frontal lobe, Type 2 dementia. The rationale for the project was that an educational intervention to APN’s would increase recognition of Type 2 dementia, ECI, in the APN. Goal: The goal of this capstone project was to successfully implement an educational intervention on the internet for APN’s concerning ECI and Type 2 dementia. Objectives: First, to determine the level of the healthcare provider’s knowledge, regarding ECI, frontal lobe dementia, Type 2. Second, describe the demographic characterisics of APNs’ who elected to participate in an online educational intervention program. Third, describe the APNs’ attitudes about ECI and knowledge regarding dementia of the frontal lobe, Type 2, before participation in an online teaching intervention. Fifth, measure changes in attitudes about ECI and knowledge regarding dementia. Plan: Phase One: Conduct a needs assessment using an evidence-based (EB) critique template. Phase Two: Design an online teaching intervention using an EB medicine approach concerning ECI and Type 2 dementia. Phase Three: Implement an ECI and Type 2 dementia online teaching intervention for a projected sample. Phase Four: Evaluate the level of attitudes related to ECI and knowledge of Type 2 dementia before and after an online teaching intervention using an adapted tool by Turner, et al. Outcomes and Result: Fifty APNs participated in the on-line educational session. Results demonstrated that the confidence level of the APNs was greater prestest than post-test. Scores on the post-test increased from a mean of 0.7013 to 0.8320.
