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Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students

BACKGROUND: There are huge demands for aged-care workers, and undergraduate gerontological nursing education plays a critical role in providing academic and professional training. PURPOSE: To examine relationships of characteristics, aged-care education, and gerontological nursing competencies with...

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Autores principales: Ho, Mu-Hsing, Lee, Jung Jae, Joo, Jee Young, Bail, Kasia, Liu, Megan F., Traynor, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10685655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38031123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01613-1
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author Ho, Mu-Hsing
Lee, Jung Jae
Joo, Jee Young
Bail, Kasia
Liu, Megan F.
Traynor, Victoria
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description BACKGROUND: There are huge demands for aged-care workers, and undergraduate gerontological nursing education plays a critical role in providing academic and professional training. PURPOSE: To examine relationships of characteristics, aged-care education, and gerontological nursing competencies with the intention to work in aged care. METHODS: An online survey was distributed to undergraduate nursing students between April and June 2022 to gather characteristics, relevant aged-care education, gerontological nursing competencies, and intentions to work in aged care data. Multivariate regression analyses were conducted to identify determinants of the intention to work in aged care. RESULTS: Students (n = 358) who were older (p < 0.001) and who were married (p < 0.001) had higher intentions to work in aged care. “Promoting mental health and psychological well-being”, “Providing evidence-based dementia care”, and “Enabling access to technology”, were also associated with positive intentions. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence on determinants of the intention to work in aged care, particularly gerontological nursing competencies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12912-023-01613-1.
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spelling pubmed-106856552023-11-30 Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students Ho, Mu-Hsing Lee, Jung Jae Joo, Jee Young Bail, Kasia Liu, Megan F. Traynor, Victoria BMC Nurs Research BACKGROUND: There are huge demands for aged-care workers, and undergraduate gerontological nursing education plays a critical role in providing academic and professional training. PURPOSE: To examine relationships of characteristics, aged-care education, and gerontological nursing competencies with the intention to work in aged care. METHODS: An online survey was distributed to undergraduate nursing students between April and June 2022 to gather characteristics, relevant aged-care education, gerontological nursing competencies, and intentions to work in aged care data. Multivariate regression analyses were conducted to identify determinants of the intention to work in aged care. RESULTS: Students (n = 358) who were older (p < 0.001) and who were married (p < 0.001) had higher intentions to work in aged care. “Promoting mental health and psychological well-being”, “Providing evidence-based dementia care”, and “Enabling access to technology”, were also associated with positive intentions. CONCLUSIONS: This study provides evidence on determinants of the intention to work in aged care, particularly gerontological nursing competencies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12912-023-01613-1. BioMed Central 2023-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10685655/ /pubmed/38031123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01613-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Ho, Mu-Hsing
Lee, Jung Jae
Joo, Jee Young
Bail, Kasia
Liu, Megan F.
Traynor, Victoria
Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
title Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
title_full Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
title_fullStr Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
title_short Determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
title_sort determinants of the intention to work in aged care: a cross-sectional study to assess gerontological nursing competencies among undergraduate nursing students
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10685655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38031123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01613-1
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