Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing
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Multicenter Study Clinical Trial Controlled Clinical Trial
The impact of a palliative care educational component on attitudes toward care of the dying in undergraduate nursing students.
Nurse educators have identified that historically nurses have not been prepared to care for dying patients. Research also has identified that nursing students have anxieties about death, dying, and caring for dying patients. Several factors have been identified as affecting nurses' and nursing students' attitudes toward care of the dying. ⋯ Results of this study indicate that education can have a positive effect on nursing students' attitudes toward care of the dying. Nursing students in the intervention group had a significant positive increase in their attitudes toward care of the dying after the intervention. The attitude change increased slightly after a 4-week period.