Abstract

Nurse educators across the globe are challenged to assist students to value gerontological nursing. This study will explore whether a nursing course with integrated gerontological content and innovative clinical strategies can impact the attitudes, knowledge, and interest of first semester undergraduate nursing students toward older adults.

Description

Julianne B. Page: Primary Presenting Author at NERC 2020; Karen Louise Valcheff: Secondary Presenting Author at conference listed in this item record.

Author Details

Dianne Yow Daniels, PhD, MSN (1); Karen Louise Valcheff, MSN (1); Julianne B. Page, EdD, MSN (2) - (1) Undergraduate Division, UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing, Chapel Hill, NC, USA; (2) School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Sigma Membership

Gamma Iota

Lead Author Affiliation

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Type

Poster

Format Type

Text-based Document

Research Approach

N/A

Keywords:

Attitudes Regarding Older Adults, Misconceptions Regarding Older Adults, Myths Regarding Older Adults, Curricular Innovations, Undergraduate Nursing Students, Undergraduate Nursing Students Attitudes, Gerontological Nursing

Conference Name

Nursing Education Research Conference 2020

Conference Host

Sigma Theta Tau International,National League for Nursing

Conference Location

Washington, DC, USA

Conference Year

2020

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Early integration of gerontologic didactic and clinical experiences: Changing nursing students' attitudes, interest, and knowledge

Washington, DC, USA

Nurse educators across the globe are challenged to assist students to value gerontological nursing. This study will explore whether a nursing course with integrated gerontological content and innovative clinical strategies can impact the attitudes, knowledge, and interest of first semester undergraduate nursing students toward older adults.