The disappearing home care nurse: a research update on a national shortage.
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Biomedical subjects
Leslie Jean Neal
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Chroniccaresolutions.com: a unique Web site for the chronically ill and disabled.
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Elder RNs: learning from their experiences.
A grounded theory study of elderly registered nurses was conducted to explore perceptions about the nursing profession in light of the nursing shortage. The participants ranged in age from 65 to 90 and came from a variety of educational and nursing backgrounds. As they spoke of their perceptions, participants shared their personal stories regarding the reasons they went to nursing school, ways they feel they made a difference in others' lives because they were nurses, and their views as elderly patients of nursing today. Their narratives describe barriers to nursing education and nurses and patients in the 1920s through 1960s and the changes that have occurred in nursing and medicine.
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Elder RNs' perspectives on nursing education: lessons learned.
Nursing faculty are challenged with recruiting students and preparing graduates to practice in increasingly complex healthcare settings. The nursing shortage compounds the burden faced by faculty in meeting the needs of the profession. A grounded theory study that explores the perceptions of nurses aged 65 years and older regarding the state of the nursing profession in light of the shortage revealed many interesting aspects of "early" nursing education that are worth revisiting. The author describes the research and uses narrative data to describe what brought elder nurses into nursing, the positive and negative aspects of their education, and the lessons we can learn from their wisdom and experience.
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