Your Patient Is Older: What Leads to Job Satisfaction?

Abstract

What boosts the interests of nurses currently working with the aged in longterm care and acute care centers? What is necessary for nurses to take an active role in rehabilitating the aged?

The Senior Psychiatrist Survey III: attitudes towards personal ageing, life experiences and psychiatric practice

“…This is encouraging as it suggests that any negative personal attitudes about ageing that psychiatrists might possess are having little impact on such practice. Considerable debate has occurred in the literature about the effects of area of professional practice on attitudes towards ageing [14,15]. The present study suggests that field of psychiatric practice had no impact on attitudes towards personal ageing, although it is heartening that psychiatrists who work with the elderly tended to have more positive attitudes.…”

The Senior Psychiatrist Survey III: Attitudes Towards Personal Ageing, Life Experiences and Psychiatric Practice

“…Considerable debate has occurred in the literature about the effects of area of professional practice on attitudes towards ageing [14,15]. This is encouraging as it suggests that any negative personal attitudes about ageing that psychiatrists might possess are having little impact on such practice.…”

Geriatric rehabilitation nursing: Developing a model

“…It has been found that nurses who show a negative attitude toward older patients tend to emphasize custodial care while those with a positive attitude tend to emphasize a rehabilitative orientation 33 . Winger and Smyth‐Strauch reported that nurses showed a positive attitude toward older patients, but they did not want to work with them 45 . Archer points out that in order to recognize any a priori biases and effectively promote patient rehabilitation, nurses need to reflect upon their view of ageing and set values related to rehabilitation 10 .…”

“…In the empirical studies ( n = 23) that showed strong and moderate evidence, rehabilitation was combined with the perspectives of nurses or staff members, patients, nursing homes or rehabilitation teams 3,5 , 7,8 , 26–46 . The subjects addressed included the rehabilitation process, 3,5 nurses’ attitudes 33,44 and roles, 27 teamwork, 44 encouragement 43 and detection of disability 30 .…”

“…Strong evidence for geriatric rehabilitation was seen in studies on multidisciplinary teamwork, 30,44 especially in nurse‐led teamwork, 31 in the unclear role of nurses in the geriatric rehabilitation process, 3,5 , 27,28 , 33,34 , 45 in the motivation of patients, 7,38 , 41 as well as in the impact of the patient's physical, mental and social capacity on the results of rehabilitation 32 , 35–40,42 . Studies on emotional support, 8,43 goal setting 29,46 and patient decision‐making 26 presented moderate, evidence‐based geriatric rehabilitation.…”