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Objective:To sinicize the Gerontological nursing competence (GeroNursingCom) scale and test its reliability and validity.Methods:This was a cross sectional investigation. The Brislin translation model was used for normal translation and back-translation, cultural adjustment and pre-investigation. The Chinese version of the GeroNursingCom scale was formed according to expert comments. From September to October 2021, a questionnaire survey was conducted by convenient sampling method on 312 nursing undergraduates from 3 undergraduate medical schools in Kunming to test its reliability and validity.Results:The Chinese version of the GeroNursingCom scale included 11 dimensions and a total of 50 items. The overall Cronbach′s α coefficient of the scale was 0.909, the Cronbach′s α coefficient of each dimension was 0.625-0.912, the split-half reliability coefficient was 0.768, and the test-retest reliability was 0.845. The scale-level content validity value was 0.930, and the item-level content validity value was 0.830-1.000. Exploratory factor analysis extracted a total of 11 common factors with eigenvalues>1, and the common interpretation of the results was 68.374%.Conclusions:The Chinese version of GeroNursingCom scale has good reliability and validity, and can be used as a tool to evaluate nursing interns' geriatric nursing ability.
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The rapid development of aging has brought new challenges to the elderly nursing service.Traditional nursing education is difficult to meet the needs of elderly nursing personnel cultivation.The training experience of other countries will provide a reference for the training of elderly nursing talents in China,so as to meet the needs of the society.This paper analyzes the current status of the geriatric nursing personnel cultivation in the United States from three aspects:the elderly nursing education in the United States,the training of the senior practice nurses and the training of the elderly nursing teachers,and according to the national conditions of our country,it is pointed out that the training of elderly nursing personnel should pay attention to curriculum setting to cultivate senior nursing professionals,pay attention to professional qualification certification and train advanced specialist nurses in geriatric nursing,pay attention to evidence-based practice and train characteristic TCM nurses in geriatric nursing,pay attention to teachers' leadership and cultivate high-level talents especially elites in geriatric nursing.