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Factors Related To Caring For The Elderly Among Three Generations Of Nurses, Joanna Fairley
Factors Related To Caring For The Elderly Among Three Generations Of Nurses, Joanna Fairley
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Three generations of registered nurses make up the current nursing workforce: Baby boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y. Each generation brings its own values, behaviors, and beliefs to the workplace. The generational diversity among nurses needs to be assessed along with other factors, such as social values of the elderly, anxiety toward aging, and practice settings, to examine how each factor impacts registered nurses' attitudes toward caring for the elderly. An exploration of these factors is significant to nurse leaders, since nurses have been known to display negative attitudes toward the elderly. The theoretical foundation for this study was based …