Background: Adequate dementia care knowledge of graduate nurses is essential for the wellbeing of both people living with dementia as well as the graduate nurses caring for them. Little is known about the dementia care knowledge, experience or confidence of graduate nurses caring for people living with dementia. This paper aims to review the available literature on graduate nurses caring for people living with dementia.
Design: A scoping review of literature based on the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews.
Methods: From April 2023 to August 2023, searches were conducted in databases which included CINAHL, Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, Trove and Google search. All articles related to the question "what literature is available on graduate nurses caring for people living with dementia" published in English were included in this scoping review.
Keywords: Alzheimer; dementia; graduate; new; nurse.