The Continuation of Prejudice: Addressing Negative Attitudes in Nurse Training and Continuing Professional Education

Assessing ageist behaviours in undergraduate nursing students using the Relating to Older People Evaluation (ROPE) survey

“…In a Welsh study, implicit attitudes to older people were less negative among nursing students in comparison to practising nurses [6]. The findings of another British study confirm that nurses' negative attitudes towards older people influence students on clinical placement [7].…”

Nurses' attitudes towards older people care: An integrative review

“…Generally, attitudes have been dichotomised as positive or negative, but findings from this review indicate that nurses held both positive and negative attitudes towards older adult care. Nash, Stuart‐Hamilton, and Mayer (), similarly, described nurses holding coexisting, but discrepant, attitudes towards older people; explicit, outwardly positive attitudes contrasted with their negative implicit attitudes, or immediate gut reactions. The researchers suggested that nurses, in executing their duties with older adults, might be doing so contrary to their instinctive prejudices.…”

Implicit attitudes toward the elderly among health professionals and undergraduate students in the health field: a systematic review

“…A total of 670 individuals were analyzed in the seven studies included in this review. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] Sample sizes in the individual studies ranged from 26 23 to 300 25 participants.…”

“…A total of 438 participants were female. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] The study conducted by Merz et al 28 presented the lowest mean age among participants (mean = 18.0 years; SD = 0.46), and the study by Nash et al 26 showed the highest mean age (mean = 35.1 years; SD = 7.4).…”