International journal of older people nursing
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Int J Older People Nurs · Dec 2019
Incentivising a career in older adult nursing: The views of student nurses.
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 attractive career option once qualified due to perceptions of low-status, strenuous nature of the work and impoverished care environments. The study aimed to explore students' perceptions of incentives that could counterbalance the barriers for new graduate nurses joining this speciality. ⋯ In terms of practice, addressing high nurse vacancy rates in older adult services that negaively impacts on patient outcomes requires a suite of incentives informed by 'what matters' to students and nurses working in the speciality.
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Int J Older People Nurs · Dec 2019
Resilience, not frailty: A qualitative study of the perceptions of older adults towards "frailty".
Despite increasing importance placed upon the identification of frailty among the older population, scholarship is limited around the perception of older adults towards the term. This qualitative study aimed to investigate the perceptions of older adults in a New Zealand setting towards the term "frail". ⋯ Frail older adults often reject the term frailty when used about themselves, therefore using this term in communication with older adults may have negative consequences.