Clare Wohlgemuth, MS, RN, GCNS

Clare Wohlgemuth, MS, RN,GCNS is a Clinical Instructor, Boston University School of Medicine.  She is a certified clinical specialist in gerontological nursing and the Nursing Director for the Boston University Geriatric Service at Boston Medical Center.  She has extensive experience in geriatric nursing, home care, functional assessment interdisciplinary team care and case management.  She has developed the collaborative practice model of care for the Boston University Geriatric Services at Boston Medical Center.  She also has extensive experience teaching and precepting medical students, residents, geriatric fellows and graduate nursing students.

Ms. Wohlgemuth served as a member of the American Geriatric Society Task Force on Interdisciplinary Resident Training in Geriatrics 1996 to 1999.  Curriculum recommendations for resident training were published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society September, 1999.  She has three years of experience as a research nurse and served as the clinical director of the IMPACT Project, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant that offered outreach and community based geriatric assessment to urban elders.  Ms. Wohlgemuth has special interest and expertise in elder abuse and restraint free care of the hospitalized elderly.