Journal article
We Need to Know More: Nurse Educators' Interest and Expertise in Gerontology
The Journal of nursing education, Vol.31(8), pp.347-351
10/1992
DOI: 10.3928/0148-4834-19921001-05
PMID: 1335487
Abstract
An assessment was made of 129 faculty who teach nursing students about the care of aged clients to determine their level of interest and expertise in 21 content areas related to gerontology. Faculty rated their expertise consistently lower than the relevance of, and their interest in, each of the content areas. Areas identified as most important for their professional growth tended to be areas where faculty ranked their expertise as already being high. The mean self-rated expertise of faculty who taught a course in gerontological nursing was significantly higher than those who did not. Most respondents lacked formal education in gerontology: 9% of respondents had gerontology in their undergraduate program; 27% in their graduate program. Only 4% were certified as gerontological nurses or gerontological nurse practitioners.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- We Need to Know More: Nurse Educators' Interest and Expertise in Gerontology
- Creators
- Muriel B Ryden - University of MinnesotaJulie A Johnson - Neurobehavioral Research
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of nursing education, Vol.31(8), pp.347-351
- DOI
- 10.3928/0148-4834-19921001-05
- PMID
- 1335487
- ISSN
- 0148-4834
- eISSN
- 1938-2421
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/1992
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370654802771
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