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Yujie Guo
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Background: There is an increasing demand for nurses to work with older adults with the increase of life expectancy. However, the willingness of nursing students to work with older adults is at a low level.
Methods: This study aimed to further explore the willingness and associated factors of undergraduate nursing students to engage in aged care. A convenience sampling method was employed from May to July 2017 in China.
Results: Of the 853 students surveyed, 38.1% were willing to engage in aged care after graduation. Expectancy, interest, attainment value, cost, prejudice, whether they like nursing profession and whether they participated in elderly-related activities were the most significant predictors of the students’ willingness to engage in aged care.
Conclusions: This suggests that nursing educators have an important part in challenging students' stereotype of older adults and enhance their interest in caring for older adults through both well-designed curriculum and elderly-related activities, so as to improve their confidence and willingness to engage in aged care.
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older adult, employment willingness, motivation, undergraduate
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Research article
Yujie Guo
Corresponding Author
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Complete author information
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Peer Review Timeline
CURRENT STATUS: Under Revision
Version 1
Posted 16 Jul, 2020
No community comments so far
Editorial decision: Major revision
On 11 Nov, 2020
Review #2 received
Received 02 Nov, 2020
Reviewer #2 agreed
On 14 Oct, 2020
Review #1 received
Received 01 Oct, 2020
Reviewer #1 agreed
On 15 Sep, 2020
Reviewers invited
Invitations sent on 04 Aug, 2020
First submitted
On 07 Jul, 2020
Editor assigned
On 07 Jul, 2020
Submission checks complete
On 06 Jul, 2020
Editor invited
On 06 Jul, 2020
Metrics
Comments: 0
PDF Downloads: ...
HTML Views: ...
Subject Areas
Nursing
License:
This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License. Read Full License
Background: There is an increasing demand for nurses to work with older adults with the increase of life expectancy. However, the willingness of nursing students to work with older adults is at a low level.
Methods: This study aimed to further explore the willingness and associated factors of undergraduate nursing students to engage in aged care. A convenience sampling method was employed from May to July 2017 in China.
Results: Of the 853 students surveyed, 38.1% were willing to engage in aged care after graduation. Expectancy, interest, attainment value, cost, prejudice, whether they like nursing profession and whether they participated in elderly-related activities were the most significant predictors of the students’ willingness to engage in aged care.
Conclusions: This suggests that nursing educators have an important part in challenging students' stereotype of older adults and enhance their interest in caring for older adults through both well-designed curriculum and elderly-related activities, so as to improve their confidence and willingness to engage in aged care.
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