Exploring undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of working in aged care settings: A review of the literature

Algoso, Maricris; Peters, Kathleen; Ramjan, Lucie M.; East, Leah

doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2015.08.001

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“…Literature from Canada and Australia supports gerontological curriculum in nursing and other health related professionals (e.g., social work) should provide students to have more knowledge and skills to be able to provide older adult care in a variety of settings. [16,28] Recently, professional nursing organizations have sought to improve geriatric/gerontological nursing education through a number of cost-effective and easily disseminated programs, recommendations, and resources. In 2006, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) in partnership with Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) published milestone guidelines in gerontological nursing education, entitled, "Caring for an Aging America: A Guide for Nursing Faculty" that provides comprehensive approaches to enhancement of geriatric education including faculty expertise development, technology-based web-administered courses, design of clinical experiences through community partnerships, supporting student interest in gerontology area.…”

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“…Moreover, more research needs to explore nursing students' perceptions of working in diverse healthcare settings for older adults (e.g., acute care settings, community clinics, assisted living, or long-term care facilities). [16] Despite the potential for nursing programs to intervene towards this end, nursing students in undergraduate programs appear to have limited educational opportunities that could facilitate more positive attitudes toward the elderly. [4,17] Moreover, nursing students are likely to encounter unwell older adults in acute care facilities, thus their perceptions are often based on older adults who are sick and frail, [18,19] potentially exacerbating negative perceptions of the elderly.…”

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Factors associated with gerontological career choice: The role of curriculum type and students’ attitudes

Lee

Garfin

Vaughn

et al. 2017

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Background and objective: Caring for a growing aging population presents a challenge in contemporary health care. This study aims to identify factors associated with nursing student's career choice in older adult care and predictors of attitudes toward older adults. Such information is critical to inform effective gerontological nursing education. Methods: Undergraduate nursing students (N = 411) from three nursing schools in California participated in a cross-sectional, web-based survey. Results: In covariate-adjusted analyses, students who had prior experiences taking gerontology-related courses, working with older adults, living with older adults, being confident in providing older adults care, and having lower negative attitudes toward older adults were more likely to consider a future career in gerontological nursing. Students' confidence in older adult care was negatively correlated with negative attitudes towards older adults. Conclusions: To increase students' career choice in gerontology, nursing schools should provide more gerontology content in nursing curricula and explore avenues to increase student confidence in older adult care.

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Factors associated with gerontological career choice: The role of curriculum type and students’ attitudes

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Vaughn

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“…Undergraduate nursing students are not immune to the commentary surrounding the aged care sector (Gould et al., ; Haron et al., ); however, there are mixed research findings around their attitudes towards aged care (Chi, Shyu, Wang, Chuang, & Chuang, ; Gould et al., ; Neville, ). It is also possible that ageist attitudes that pervade societies (Vauclair, Hanke, Huang, & Abrams, ) may also shape perceptions of the values of working with older persons, both within the aged care sector and more generally (Algoso, Peters, Ramjan, & East, ; Ben‐Harush et al., ).…”

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Nursing students’ preferences for clinical placements in the residential aged care setting

Lea

Marlow

Altmann

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Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…The attitude of healthcare professionals is one of the key factors in providing quality care for the elderly. Many studies have evaluated the attitude of students, who are the future health professionals, toward the elderly (3)(4)(5)(6). In their systematic review, Liu et al (5) reviewed studies published between 2000 and 2011 that investigated the attitude of nurses and nursing students toward the elderly.…”

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“…The results of these studies have been interpreted to indicate that nursing students are positively affected by this education. These results, therefore, suggest that adjustments must be made to geriatric education, and the curriculum must be enriched with better information to improve teaching skills and practices that meet the needs of the elderly and improve the quality of their care (3)(4)(5)(6)9). Many nursing schools in Turkey do not have any geriatrics courses, but a limited number of schools do offer elective geriatrics courses.…”

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Can an Elective Geriatric Nursing Course Change Nursing Students' Attitudes and Willingness in Caring for the Elderly? A Quasi-Experimental Design Study

Söylemez¹,

Küçükgüçlü²,

Akyol³

2018

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Introduction:The elderly population is rapidly growing, and healthcare professionals are currently providing increased care for the elderly. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of an elective geriatric nursing course on the attitude of students toward the elderly and students' willingness to work with them.Materials and Method: This study was a quasi-experimental. Pretest-posttest design was used. The sample comprised 108 nursing students (46 of the students were educated in an elective geriatric nursing course, 62 were educated in an elective emergency and surgery nursing course). The Student Information Form and Kogan's Attitudes Towards Old People Scale were used. Value, average, percentage frequency distribution, paired t tests, independent t test, McNemar's test, and chi-square test were used.Results: Students who participated in the elective geriatric nursing course developed more positive and less negative attitudes toward the elderly after the course in comparison with students who participated in the elective emergency and surgery nursing course.Conclusion: It is important that the curriculum of the geriatric nursing course should create awareness and knowledge in students regarding care of and attitudes toward the elderly. Adopting a more positive and less negative attitude ensures a higher quality care for the elderly. There is a need to revise the nursing curriculum and develop innovative schemes that will increase the students' willingness to work with the elderly.

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Exploring undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of working in aged care settings: A review of the literature

Cited by 63 publications

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Factors associated with gerontological career choice: The role of curriculum type and students’ attitudes

Factors associated with gerontological career choice: The role of curriculum type and students’ attitudes

Nursing students’ preferences for clinical placements in the residential aged care setting

Can an Elective Geriatric Nursing Course Change Nursing Students' Attitudes and Willingness in Caring for the Elderly? A Quasi-Experimental Design Study

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