As the population continues to improve life expectancy rates, so too the numbers of elderly who require care outside the traditional family setting rises. This leads to an increased demand on the health care system and leads to more call for specialist geriatric and aged care nurses. However, there is an identifiable gap in nursing training in relation to geriatric and aged care in Saudi Arabia. Nursing students are limit provided clinical placement in nursing homes during their training and

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... s has implications for retaining institutional learning and diffusion of power. This problem can be overcome with the addition within the curriculum of a clinical placement with nursing home setting.