Influence of Training on First-Year Nursing Department Students’ Attitudes on Death and Caring for Dying Patients: A Single-Group Pretest–Posttest Experimental Study

What is it about?

The study examined the influence of training on first-year nursing department students’ attitudes on death and caring for dying patients. Utilizing the experimental model.

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Why is it important?

Nursing students have negative attitudes toward both death and dying patients. This attitude leads to negativities in terms of patient care and approach toward the patient's family. As a future health-care professional, it is important for nursing students to establish a positive perception of death so that they can provide qualified, professional, and responsive care to dying patients and their families. Nursing students' as future health-care professional must be qualified to provide health care for dying patients and the family. It is important to create a positive perception of death in order to provide professional and sensitive care. The study shows that one of the important steps in achieving this is to give an educational training. Therefore, the addition of lessons in the nursing education curriculum called palliative care or end-of-life care will be effective in reducing the negativity of nurses and nursing students. However, conscious and educated nurses can safely touch the dying patient.