Baccalaureate Nursing Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Older Adults

Attitudes and perception of baccalaureate nursing students toward educational simulation

Background: Simulation can produce highly qualified professionals, however, it can also be perceived as stressful and frustrating by the nursing students.Purposes: This study was to identify the attitudes and perceptions of Jordanian nursing students toward simulation as an educational strategy, to investigate whether certain students’ characteristics affect their attitudes and perceptions, to ...

Nursing home nurses’ and community-dwelling older adults’ reported knowledge, attitudes, and behavior toward antibiotic use

BACKGROUND Antibiotic overuse causes antibiotic resistance, one of the most important threats to human health. Older adults, particularly those in nursing homes, often receive antibiotics when they are not indicated. METHODS To understand knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of nursing home (NH) nurses and community-dwelling older adults towards antibiotic use, especially in clinical situation...

Nursing Knowledge and Attitudes toward Pain Management

Iranian staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students.

INTRODUCTION Clinical education is an indispensible part of the nursing education. Clinical nurses play an important role in this teaching learning process. The quality and quantity of student-nurse interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hamper students' learning. The rationale of this research was to probe into staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students within the cont...

Knowledge and attitudes of undergraduate nursing students toward dementia: An Indian perspective.

OBJECTIVE This work evaluated nursing students' knowledge and attitudes toward individuals with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. METHODOLOGY This was a transversal, descriptive study carried out with a randomly selected group of nursing students (N = 122) from Bangalore, India, in 2013. The study used the Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge scale (30 questions with true-false options) and the Atti...