Citation

Liu L, Wu B. Chinese Journal of Medical Education Research 2006; (12).

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006)

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE To search the status quo of students'thanatopsis in order to push focused education on terminal care to the nursing major students.Metheds To distribute home-made questionnaire to 268 nursing students.

RESULTS students who cannot talk about death normally account for 21.3 percent;who never considered death or unnecessary to consider death account for 12.9 percent of the total;who considered a lot account for 10 percent;who cannot handle terminally ill account for 74.3 percent;and who prefer self-suicide when suffered defeat account for 4.9 percent.

CONCLUSION Nursing students have insufficient ideas of death,and they need to think deeply about the meaning of death and to nurture a positive outlook on death in order to get a correct terminal care education.

Language: zh

Keywords

Hospice care; Nursing students; Death education