title: Caring for older people with dementia in hospital. Part two: strategies.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nursing students often care for patients with dementia during practice placements and the quality of their experience is important.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To explore adult nursing students' experiences of caring for older people with dementia in acute hospital settings.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four focus groups were conducted at one university in England. The data were analysed thematically and this article presents the care strategies that students adopted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The students' strategies were: getting to know the person and building a relationship, involvement of families, flexible and creative care approaches, use of comfort and communication.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The strategies were congruent with person-centred care but students often had to negotiate these approaches to fit in with hospital routines.
authors: Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, and University College London Hospitals. baillil2@lsbu.ac.uk
authors: Lesley
authors: L
authors: Baillie
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: Merritt
authors: Janet
authors: J
authors: Cox
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003405:Creativity; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D004739:England; D017144:Focus Groups; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013338:Students, Nursing