Guo Yujie, Yang Lei, Zhu Lingli, Wan Yu, Zhang Shujun, Zhang Jie
School of Nursing, Nantong University, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province, China.
BMC Nurs. 2021 Jun 28;20(1):113. doi: 10.1186/s12912-021-00639-7.
The aging population has become a serious challenge for health care service and will lead to an increasing demand for nurses to work with older people. However, working with older people has always been an unpopular career choice among nursing students. This study aimed to further explore the willingness and associated factors of undergraduate nursing students to work with older people in China.
A convenience sampling method was employed from May to July 2017 among undergraduate nursing students from a nursing school in Nantong China. Demographic data, the Chinese version of the Kogan's Old Person's Scale, the Chinese version of the Facts of Aging Quiz and the motivation questionnaire were used to collect data. A series of Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Spearman correlation test and Ordinal logistic regression analysis were applied to analyze the data.
Of the 853 students surveyed, 38.1 % were willing to work with older people after graduation. Expectancy, interest, attainment value, cost, prejudice, whether they like nursing profession and whether they participated in elderly-related activities were the most significant predictors of the students' willingness to work with older people.
Nursing students expressed a low level of willingness to work with older people upon graduation. Nursing educators have an important part in challenging students' stereotype of older people and inspire their career choice in caring for older people through both well-designed curriculum and elderly-related activities, and relevant education departments should actively optimize aged-related courses, strengthen professional ethics and gratitude education, and improve nursing students' sense of identity and mission in caring for older people, so as to improve their willingness to work with older people.
人口老龄化已成为医疗保健服务面临的严峻挑战，并将导致对从事老年护理工作护士的需求不断增加。然而，从事老年护理工作一直不是护理专业学生青睐的职业选择。本研究旨在进一步探讨中国本科护理专业学生从事老年护理工作的意愿及相关因素。
2017年5月至7月，采用便利抽样法，对中国南通某护理学院的本科护理专业学生进行调查。使用人口统计学数据、中文版的科根老人量表、中文版的衰老知识测验和动机问卷收集数据。应用一系列曼-惠特尼U检验、克鲁斯卡尔-沃利斯H检验、斯皮尔曼相关性检验和有序逻辑回归分析对数据进行分析。
在853名被调查学生中，38.1%的学生毕业后愿意从事老年护理工作。预期、兴趣、成就价值、成本、偏见、是否喜欢护理专业以及是否参加过与老年人相关的活动是学生从事老年护理工作意愿的最重要预测因素。
护理专业学生毕业后从事老年护理工作的意愿较低。护理教育工作者在挑战学生对老年人的刻板印象以及通过精心设计的课程和与老年人相关的活动激发他们从事老年护理工作的职业选择方面起着重要作用，相关教育部门应积极优化老年护理相关课程，加强职业道德和感恩教育，提高护理专业学生从事老年护理工作的认同感和使命感，从而提高他们从事老年护理工作的意愿。
