title: How to make care champions.
abstract: This article provides an overview of how second-year, adult branch nursing students at De Montfort University, Leicester, were trained as older people's champions to improve the care provided to this patient group.
authors.affiliation: Directorate of Services for Older People, Leicester Royal Infirmary.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burdett
authors.forename: Penny
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tremayne
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Utecht
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement; D004739:England; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010344:Patient Advocacy / Q000193:education*; D028723:Personhood