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Student nurses’ career preferences for working with older people: A replicated longitudinal survey
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It would appear that socialising factors within the education process, negative clinical experiences and the ageist bias within the broader community play an important role in these student's career choices.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 128 citations till now.read more
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Why do nursing students not want to work in geriatric care? A national questionnaire survey
TL;DR: The chief recruitment effort should be invested in making the domain of geriatric nursing more attractive to nurses by improving its pay structure and expanding the powers of geriatrics nurses to the level of Clinical Nurse Specialist, which would provide an attractive promotion track.
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Perceptions of community care and placement preferences in first-year nursing students: A multicentre, cross-sectional study
Margriet van Iersel,Corine H.M. Latour,Rien de Vos,Paul A. Kirschner,Paul A. Kirschner,Wilma J.M. Scholte op Reimer +5 more
TL;DR: Strategies to positively influence students' perceptions of community nursing are urgently required to halt the dissonance between students' preference for the hospital and society's need for highly educated community nurses.
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Nursing students' intentions to enter primary health care as a career option: Findings from a national survey.
TL;DR: Education and workplace strategies aimed at attracting new graduate nurse into Primary Health Care settings are imperative to address the increased prevalence of chronic health issues and the predicted ongoing primary health care workforce shortages.
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Attitudes towards caring for older people in Scotland, Sweden and the United States
TL;DR: Inspirational educators, excellent clinical placements and increasing the professional esteem of those working with older people are required to promote the specialty as an attractive career option.
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Who wants to work with older people? Swedish student nurses' willingness to work in elderly care—A questionnaire study
Elisabeth Carlson,Ewa Idvall +1 more
TL;DR: Age, gender and previous work experiences as health care assistants did not impact on students' willingness to work in elderly care and an overall positive evaluation of the clinical learning environment with more positive values for students considering a career.
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Transforming students' views of gerontological nursing: Realising the potential of 'enriched' environments of learning and care : A multi-method longitudinal study
TL;DR: The results suggest that students do not necessarily enter nurse training with negative predispositions towards work with older adults, but that such negative views develop during their training largely as a result of clinical placements and extra-curricula paid work.
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Nursing home employment for nursing students: valuable experience or a harsh deterrent?
TL;DR: The findings support the literature in demonstrating that working with older people is the least preferred area of practice for students, and that its popularity actually declines during the education process.
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Student nurses' attitudes towards working with older patients.
Andy McKinlay,Sue Cowan +1 more
TL;DR: The findings offer some support for previous studies that have looked at the more general issue of attitudes towards older people, but indicate that a more rigorous and more highly focused approach to the study of such attitudes is required if the research is to be relevant to the issue of working with older patients.
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Nursing students' career preferences: a Norwegian study.
TL;DR: Nursing educators, clinical nurses and policymakers must reconsider their priorities and improve working conditions for nurses in aged care in order to meet society's need for nurses.
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'Older people have lived their lives': first year nursing students' attitudes towards older people.
TL;DR: Contrary to previous research, many students studied in this project, who have had experience of working with older people demonstrate more positive attitudes to older people and are less likely to express stereotypical attitudes towards ageing suggesting that positive exposure to olderPeople can challenge ageist views.