Background A current issue in workforce planning is ensuring healthcare professionals are
both competent and willing to work with older adults with complex needs. This includes …

Aims This integrative review aims to explore the willingness of nursing students to work in
geriatric care over the past 10 years and to explore the factors influencing nursing students …

Background Despite efforts to incorporate information about older people in pre-licensure
nursing programs, there are inconsistent results from studies examining student nurses' …

Background Negative perceptions about working with older people within nursing contribute
to the deficit of educators with expertise to teach student nurses, and nurses graduating ill …

Aims To identify the reasons why workers decide to enter, stay or leave the aged care
workforce; and the factors influencing them to transition between community and residential …

Nursing education programs have a responsibility to prepare future nurses to care for the
growing number of older adults who will be accessing health care services. Preparation …

Background Previous studies have focused on identifying the factors hindering nursing
students' interest in gerontology careers, whereas others have suggested interventions to …

Nursing students rate geriatric nursing poorly in career preferences, but aging populations
mean more older people require access to health care. Negative attitudes held by nursing …

Background The common practice of making fun of aging and older people demonstrates
that ageism towards older people is socially acceptable. It is so accepted that even those of …

Background and aim Nurse vacancy rates in older adult services are disproportionately high
compared to other areas of nursing. This is partly because few student nurses consider it an …