title: Is elderly care research-based?
abstract: Nurses working with elderly people, and students considering the specialty as a career option, may develop negative attitudes about the value of the work they do. These often derive from the perception that their efforts do not improve patients' problems, and a misconception that what they do is intuitive rather than based in research. Such tensions can lead to the development of 'burnout' and the rapid demoralisation of the workforce. Roger Watson shows how nursing elderly people, particularly those with dementia who live in continuing care settings, calls on high degrees of technical and interpersonal skills, and demonstrates how the roots of the specialty are deeply entrenched in research.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010371:Pediatric Nursing