Nurses’ perspectives of elderly care in selected Hospitals, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Aluye Benibo Data, Adeyanju Awoniyi Babafemi, Wankasi Helen Idubamo Department of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Online Published on 22 September, 2022. Abstract Elderly care is an important aspect of health care because elderly patients need a lot of care and attention. This study investigated 100 nurses’ perspectives of elderly care in selected hospitals in Yenagoa Bayelsa State, Nigeria. The study adopted a sequential explanatory mixed-method design with one hundred eligible nurses recruited into the study using both simple random and purposive sampling techniques. An adopted and modified closed-ended questionnaire was used to collect data for the quantitative study and an interview guide was used for the qualitative data. Statistical Package for Social Sciences was used for data analysis for the quantitative study. The quantitative study revealed that nurses had a positive perspective with 71 per cent strongly disagreeing that elderly care is safer in the hospital, majority of the respondents 92 (92%) disagreed that elderly care is care provided only in the hospital by non-geriatrics, (56%) strongly agreed. Experience and Expectations of the nurse affect nurses’ perspectives of elderly care. A-five step thematic analysis was conducted. Three themes that emerged were mainly the challenges, such as inadequate nursing staff, poor funding by the government, growing population of the elderly, lack of special care center indicating the need to improve elderly care. Thus, it is important to conclude that elderly care in hospitals needs a lot of attention in the study area. Top Keywords Elderly, Nurses, Nursing Care, Perspective. Top |