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explore Norwegian student nurses’attitudes towards older patients,their work preferencesthroughout their student years,why students choose/do not chooseto pursue a career in geriatricnursing after graduation, andwhat changes students deemnecessary for them to contemplateworking within this field ofnursing.The students’ attitudes towardsolder patients improved somewhatduring college. While twostudents preferred to work witholder patients throughout, fivestudents changed their work preferencesto geriatric nursing betweentheir second and third yearof training.Reasons for choosing geriatricnursing were genuine interest inolder people, and work satisfaction.Reasons for not choosinggeriatric nursing were related towork conditions and their nurse’straining. Improvements both ingeneral work conditions and conditionsrelated to professionalwork satisfaction were deemednecessary by these students forthem to choose such a careerafter graduation.