Cronin, Camille and Ojo, Omorogieva ORCID: 0000-0003-0071-3652 (2021) Nursing students’ experiences of, and socialisation in, dementia care in the acute hospital setting. Nursing Older People. ISSN 1472-0795 (Print), 2047-8941 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2021.e1312)

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Abstract

Background
An ageing population with a range of co-morbidities means the number of hospital admissions of older people with dementia is increasing. People with dementia can find acute hospital settings unsettling and they need to be cared for by a workforce skilled and knowledgeable in dementia care.
Aim
To explore nursing students’ experiences of, and socialisation in, dementia care in the acute hospital setting in England through a secondary qualitative analysis of data from a phenomenological study of nursing students’ cultural beliefs around, and understanding of, dementia.
Method Data from ten focus groups with 81 undergraduate nursing students at two universities in the south of England were subjected to content analysis. This was a secondary qualitative analysis of data retrieved from an earlier study.
Findings
Two categories emerged: ‘exposure to dementia care’ and ‘socialisation in dementia care’. Participants often felt unprepared to care for patients with dementia and their experiences were negatively affected by staff’s views of patients with dementia, who were often considered challenging to manage. Participants also encountered specialist dementia nurses who enabled them to learn more about person-centred dementia care.
Conclusion
Optimal dementia care knowledge and skills can contribute to enhanced patient outcomes and positive attitudes towards older people’s care. To reduce deficits in dementia care education, nurses need regular continuing professional development in dementia care, higher education institutions need to commit to developing dementia care in their curricula, and students need to be socialised in dementia care earlier during undergraduate nurse education.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	career pathways, clinical, clinical placements, curriculum, dementia, dementia awareness, education, neurology, practice learning, pre-registration education, professional, students
Subjects:	R Medicine > RT Nursing
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > Institute for Lifecourse Development > Centre for Chronic Illness and Ageing Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences > School of Health Sciences (HEA)
Related URLs:	Publisher http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33949160/
Last Modified:	21 Jan 2022 14:11
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/32936

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