- Title
- Emergency nurses attitudes towards older people in the emergency department: a cross-sectional study
- Creator
- Deasey, Debra; Kable, Ashley; Jeong, Sarah
- Relation
- Contemporary Nurse Vol. 52, Issue 2-3, p. 369-380
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10376178.2016.1224122
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Aim: To report nurses’ attitudes towards older people in the emergency department (ED). Background: A nurse’s attitude towards an older person can have an effect on nurses’ work practices and interactions and can result in adverse outcomes for the older person. Design: A national cross-sectional survey using a previously validated instrument Older Person in Acute Care Survey (OPACS) was conducted to measure emergency nurses’ attitudes towards older people in their care. Methods: Members of the College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA) were invited to participate in the study. There were 371 (39%) completed surveys returned. Results: The OPACS survey identified that ED nurses have positive attitudes towards older people in the ED. Conclusion: The implications for practice are clinically significant because positive attitudes can result in prevention of discrimination and marginalisation of the older person in the ED.
- Subject
- older person; emergency; nurse; attitudes
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344928
- Identifier
- uon:29528
- Identifier
- ISSN:1037-6178
- Language
- eng
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