Mezey M, Fulmer T, Fairchild S
Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, New York University, School of Education, Division of Nursing, 50 West 4th Street, 429 Shimkin Hall, New York, NY 10012, USA.
J Gerontol Nurs. 2000 Jul;26(7):28-35. doi: 10.3928/0098-9134-20000701-11.
This article explores the relative merits of encouraging preparation of more nurses with specialization in geriatrics as compared to encouraging geriatric preparation among nurses whose major field of study is outside geriatrics. The article explores two approaches to examining capacity for geriatric nursing scholarship among nurse scholars not involved in geriatrics, and in schools of nursing with strength in research but with little geriatric research. The findings show an ongoing need to strengthen geriatric nursing as an area of specialization. Faculty prepared in geriatric nursing are underrepresented in schools of nursing, and only a small number of doctoral students specialize in geriatric nursing. Academic nursing programs with strength in geriatric nursing need ongoing support to maintain and expand current geriatric programs. Data support that encouraging individual non-geriatric nurse faculty and doctoral candidates to focus their work on areas of concern to geriatric nursing, and strengthening geriatrics in research-intensive schools of nursing that have not heavily invested in geriatric scholarship are viable options for strengthening academic geriatric nursing. Establishing mechanisms to attract nurse scholars working outside the scope of geriatric nursing to address clinical issues of concern to older adults offers promise in rapidly attracting new scholars to geriatric nursing.
本文探讨了鼓励培养更多老年护理专业护士与鼓励非老年护理专业领域的护士进行老年护理培训的相对优点。本文探讨了两种方法，以检验未参与老年护理的护士学者以及研究实力强但老年护理研究较少的护理学院中开展老年护理学术研究的能力。研究结果表明，持续需要加强老年护理这一专业领域。接受过老年护理培训的教员在护理学院中所占比例较低，只有少数博士生专门从事老年护理。在老年护理方面有优势的学术护理项目需要持续的支持，以维持和扩大现有的老年护理项目。数据表明，鼓励非老年护理专业的个体护士教员和博士生将工作重点放在老年护理相关领域，并在尚未大量投入老年护理学术研究的研究密集型护理学院加强老年护理，是加强学术性老年护理的可行选择。建立机制吸引从事老年护理领域以外工作的护士学者来解决老年人关心的临床问题，有望迅速吸引新的学者投身老年护理领域。
