Nurses attitudes toward the elderly people

It was assumed that attitudes held by nurses will help to determine the quality of care given to old people. One hundred diploma and baccalaureate nurses who are a permanent staff in the medical and surgical units in the medical research institute and the main university hospitals, in Alexandria university were participated in the study. Data were collected using the older person Questionnaire [OPQ] to determine nurses attitude towards the elderly people. The results revealed that nurses have a negative attitude toward elderly people. Age factor did not indicate a significant difference with nurses attitude while level of education indicated a significant difference at 5% level. It was recommended that nursing education and inservice training programs should stress the importance of gerontology

Emotional responses reported by first year nursing students related to the first clinical experience

Sixty five female first year nursing students from the higher institute of nursing, university of Alexandria, and who were assigned to spend their clinical practice at the medical Research institute hospital were included in the study. Data were collected using the clinical stress Questionnaire [CSQ] to determine differences between students emotional responses on the three periods of the first clinical experience. The findings denote that students responses did not differ significantly at 5% level. However, students were more worried, anxious, intimidated, fearful, overwhelmed, and excited one week immediately before the first day of the experience and became less threatened at the end of the first day