Student nurses' attitudes towards working with older patients

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 298-309

  McKinlay, Andy ^a   Cowan, Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Education; Older patients; Student nurses; Theory of planned behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DECISION MAKING; ELDERLY CARE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; NURSING STUDENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC NURSING; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 0141994377     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02713.x     Document Type: Article

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