2. Employment direction: professional teaching of geriatric nursing, geriatric hospitals and nursing homes.
3. Geriatric nursing is a subject that comprehensively applies the specialized nursing knowledge and clinical general nursing knowledge about aging and the elderly to the professional field of geriatric nursing, and then studies the particularity of health problems of the elderly.
4. Geriatric nursing originated from existing nursing theories and disciplines, such as sociology, biology, psychology and health policy. American Nurses Association (ANA)1987 put forward the concept of "gerontological nursing" instead of "geriatric nursing" because gerontology involves a wider range of nursing. Including evaluating the health and functional status of the elderly, making nursing plans, providing effective nursing and other health care services, and evaluating the nursing effect. Nursing care for the elderly emphasizes maintaining and restoring health, preventing and controlling disabilities caused by acute and chronic diseases, giving full play to the daily life ability of the elderly, realizing the best function of the elderly body, and maintaining their dignity and comfort until their death.
5. The focus of nursing research for the elderly is to study the influence of natural, social, cultural and psychological factors on the health of the elderly from the perspective of their physiology, psychology, social culture and development, and explore ways or measures to solve the health problems of the elderly.