An investigation of nursing students' knowledge of dementia: A questionnaire study

Nurse Education Today
Claire E A EcclestonAndrew L Robinson

Abstract

Globally, rising rates of dementia indicate the need for more nurses skilled in caring for people with this condition. However nursing students may not acquire the requisite knowledge from existing undergraduate curricula. To investigate the dementia knowledge of second-year nursing students before and after a supported placement in a residential aged care facility. Assessment of the level of knowledge of dementia is important to provide evidence of the need to enhance dementia learning in the nursing curriculum. A pre-post control-intervention questionnaire study. 16 Tasmanian residential aged care facilities (RACFs). 99 Tasmanian second-year nursing undergraduate students (52 intervention, 47 control). Second year nursing students were engaged in a three week RACF clinical placement at one of the 14 control facilities or one of the 2 involved in the development of teaching aged care facilities. Pre/post data were collected using the 21-item 'Dementia Knowledge Assessment Tool 2.0' and demographic survey questions, and analysed using descriptive analyses and nonparametric significance tests. The data showed that these nursing students had a poor knowledge of dementia, with limited understanding of key items relevant to their c...Continue Reading

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