Feedback Survey for an Online Learning Module: Developing and Validating a Scale to Measure Nursing Students' Self-Assessed Knowledge and Perceptions of Older People and Confidence in Working With Them.

Purpose: To determine if an online learning module on older people's care improved nursing students' self-assessed knowledge, and perceptions of older people, we developed a brief Feedback Survey. The aim of this study was to examine the internal consistency (a type of reliability) and construct validity of the feedback survey.

Design And Methods: Secondary analysis of data from the Awakening Canadian's to Ageism and McCalla e-learning intervention studies for postsecondary nursing students.

Understanding Older Adults' Experiences with Cannabis for Medicinal Purposes: A Mixed Methods Study.

The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives of older medicinal cannabis consumers and those advising them on older Canadians' experiences accessing cannabis and information about it, as well as how stigma may influence their experiences. A concurrent triangulation mixed methods design was used. The design was qualitatively driven and involved conducting semi-structured interviews with older adults and advisors and developing a survey for older adults.

(Re)conceptualising Good Care in Hospital Settings From the Perspectives of Older Persons: A Concept Analysis Using Pragmatic Utility.

Purpose: To understand good care from the perspective of hospitalised older persons.

Background: Older persons are the largest group of hospital users, and numbers will increase in the next decades. Hospital organisations are attempting to transform traditional care models to meet the specialised needs of hospitalised older persons.

Distance interventions for enhancing preparedness in informal caregivers of older adults: A systematic review protocol.

Introduction: Informal caregivers provide care to older adults but report lack of preparedness to enact the role. Intervention programs delivered by distance offer one alternative to support preparedness. Three review studies conducted to date have highlighted the benefits of distance interventions for enhancing preparedness among informal caregivers of older adults.

Examining attitudes to uptake and sustainment of technology among care aides in the delivery of care: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Care aides are health workers who deliver hands-on care to patients across the healthcare continuum. The use of technology in healthcare delivery is increasing, and evidence regarding how care aides' attitudes may either facilitate or hinder the adoption of healthcare technologies is lacking.The aim of the proposed scoping review is to examine available evidence regarding care aides' attitudes towards the adoption of innovation and factors that may influence the sustainable use of technology in healthcare delivery.

Development and evaluation of an anti-ageism advisory group with older adults and gerontological experts: a qualitative descriptive study.

Background: In recent years, academics have increasingly acknowledged the importance of involving health service users and community stakeholders as active partners in health research. Yet, the involvement of older adults, the largest group of health service users, as research partners remains limited, possibly due to ageist attitudes that devalue older adults' contributions. During the three years of our Awakening Canadians to Ageism study, we convened an advisory group consisting of older adults and gerontological experts to discuss issues related to ageism, help interpret the study findings, and develop a range of knowledge mobilization strategies to dispel ageism.

Student nurses' views on an E-Learning module on comfort, safety, and mobility with older adults: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Nursing students often receive insufficient training in older adults' care.

Purpose: Examine nursing students' perceptions of an e-learning module developed to enhance their knowledge about the comfort, safety, and mobility of older adults.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was administered to third-year baccalaureate nursing students at a Canadian university after they had completed the comfort, safety, and mobility module.

Nurses' knowledge and beliefs on pain management practices with hospitalised persons living with dementia: A qualitative descriptive study.

Aim: To understand nurses' knowledge, beliefs and experiences affect pain management practices in hospitalised persons living with dementia (PLWD).

Design: Naturalistic inquiry using qualitative descriptive design.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 registered nurses who worked in one acute care hospital in Southern California from October to November 2022.

Nursing Students' Views on an e-Learning Activity About Health Promotion for Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Purpose: Nurses are graduating ill-prepared to work with older adults across care contexts. The education nursing students receive about older adults often focuses on managing illnesses rather than promoting health. To expand the education that nursing students receive regarding health promotion and older adults, we examined nursing students' perceptions of an e-learning activity on health promotion with older adults.

Nursing Students' Perceptions on a Pain Management E- Learning Module: An Exploratory Quantitative Study.

Background: Nursing students are graduating ill-prepared to assess and manage pain in older adults. To address this gap, we developed an e-learning module on the topic.

Aim: To examine nursing students' perceptions on a pain management e-learning module focused on older adults.

Understanding nurses' experience of climate change and then climate action in Western Canada.

Aim: To understand nurses' personal and professional experiences with the heat dome, drought and forest fires of 2021 and how those events impacted their perspectives on climate action.

Design: A naturalistic inquiry using qualitative description.

Method: Twelve nurses from the interior of British Columbia, Canada, were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide.

The Effects of Stigma: Older Persons and Medicinal Cannabis.

Cannabis has long been stigmatized as an illicit drug. Since legalization in Canada for both medical and recreational purposes, older adults' cannabis consumption has increased more than any other age group. Yet, it is unclear how the normalization of cannabis has impacted perceptions of stigma for older adults consuming cannabis medicinally.

The meaning of preparedness for informal caregivers of older adults: A concept analysis.

Aim: To examine the concept of preparedness over time in research with informal caregivers of older adults.

Design: Concept analysis.

Methods: Rodgers' evolutionary method of concept analysis was used to guide this theoretical paper due to the dynamic nature of preparedness, which is influenced by both context and time.

E-learning modules to enhance student nurses' perceptions of older people: a single group pre-post quasi-experimental study.

Objectives: To examine whether e-learning activities on cognitive impairment (CI), continence and mobility (CM) and understanding and communication (UC) improve student nurses' knowledge and attitudes in the care of older adults.

Methods: A quasi-experimental single group pre-post-test design was used. We included 299 undergraduate nursing students for the CI module, 304 for the CM module, and 313 for the UC module.

Factors influencing emotional support of older adults living in the community: a scoping review protocol.

Background: Emotional support is key to improve older adults' subjective health, and psychological, social and emotional well-being. However, many older adults living in the community lack emotional support, increasing the risk for loneliness, depression, anxiety, potentially avoidable healthcare use and costs, and premature death. Multiple intersecting factors may influence emotional support of older adults in the community, but these are poorly understood.

The Information-Seeking Behavior and Unmet Knowledge Needs of Older Medicinal Cannabis Consumers in Canada: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Introduction: Older Canadians (age 60+) are increasingly using cannabis to treat their health problems, but little is known regarding how they learn about medicinal cannabis. This study explored the perspectives of older cannabis consumers, prospective consumers, healthcare professionals, and cannabis retailers on older adults' information-seeking behavior and unmet knowledge needs.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive design was used.

Safeguarding survival: Older persons with multiple chronic conditions' unplanned readmission experiences: A mixed methods systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to create a holistic understanding of the psychosocial processes of older persons with multiple chronic conditions' experience with unplanned readmission experiences within 30 days of discharge home and identify factors influencing these psychosocial processes.

Design: Mixed methods systematic review.

Data Sources: Six electronic databases (Ovid MEDLINE (R) All 1946-present, Scopus, CINAHL, Embase, PsychINFO and Web of Science).

Fast thinking: How unconscious bias and binary language contribute to rationing of care to older persons.

Background: Binary or categorical thinking is a way of thinking in which the brain unconsciously sorts the masses of information it receives into categories. This helps us to quickly process information and keeps us safe through pattern recognition of possible threats. However, it can also be influenced by unconscious and conscious biases that inform our judgements of other people and situations.

Improving practicing nurses' knowledge of the cognitive impairment, continence, and mobility needs of older people.

Objectives: To test if two e-learning modules - one on cognitive impairment, and one on continence and mobility - in older people would improve the knowledge of nurse members from the Canadian Gerontological Nurses Association and College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta.

Methods: A pre-post-test design was used to test 88 nurses' knowledge of cognitive impairment and 105 nurses' knowledge of continence and mobility and their perceptions of how the modules contributed to their learning.

Results: There was a statistically significant increase in practicing nurses' knowledge about cognitive impairment (0.

Nursing Care Management of Responsive Behaviors for Persons Living With Dementia in Acute Care Settings: An Integrative Review.

The current integrative review was performed to understand how acute care nurses manage responsive behaviors among persons living with dementia (PLWD) in acute care settings. Eight studies were included, and three themes were developed: , , and . Nurses expressed difficulties in caring for hospitalized PLWD due to lack of knowledge of dementia care, pressure to work more efficiently, and prioritization of acute medical concerns.

Improving practicing nurses' knowledge and perceptions of older people: a quasi-experimental study.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine if an e-learning module about understanding and communicating with older people can improve practicing nurses' ageist perceptions about older people.

Methods: We used a quasi-experimental pre-post-test design. Participants completed a 13-item Ambivalent Ageism Scale before and after completing the Understanding and Communicating with Older People e-learning module as well as a Likert-style feedback survey with the option for written feedback on an open-ended question.

Developing a Comprehensive Understanding of Older Person Abuse in Canadian Immigrant Communities: An Integrative Review.

Older immigrants represent 28% of the Canadian population who are over the age of 60. World-wide 1 in 6 older persons experiences abuse. Due to population aging, attention must be paid to the abuse and victimization of older immigrant persons, and the concept of elder abuse.

Older persons with multiple chronic conditions' experiences of unplanned readmission: An integrative review.

Background: As persons, 60 years of age and older live longer, they are more likely to develop one or more chronic conditions. Rising numbers of older persons with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) will increase the need for home healthcare services and hospital services and unplanned readmissions will increase globally.

Aim: The aim of this integrative review was to explore the experiences of older persons with MCCs' unplanned readmission from home to hospital within 30 days of discharge using an integrative review.

Addressing Pain Associated with Bone Metastases: Oncology Nursing Roles in a Multidisciplinary Rapid-Access Palliative Radiotherapy Clinic.

Objectives: We provide a review of external beam radiotherapy for pain associated with bone metastases, to summarize evidence associated with different radiotherapy fraction prescriptions, and outline the oncology nursing roles in a rapid-access palliative radiotherapy clinic. Additionally, we describe the clinical capacity contributed by a nurse practitioner working at full clinical scope.

Data Sources: Data derived from literary databases (PubMed, CINAHL); an ethics-approved, prospective data set; and clinical expertise.