Evaluation challenges assumptions about nursing education's impact on students' interest in gerontological nursing.
Nursing education often assumes that if students experience a positive placement with older people, they will consider a career in the specialty. The evaluation in this journal issue challenges that assumption. Students valued the learning (page 35), reported a greater appreciation of the complexity of caring for older adults and recognised the skills involved. Yet none planned to choose gerontological nursing on registration.
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