Intern Nurses’ Experiences and Attitudes Towards the Concept of Death While Providing Care for Cancer Patients: A Descriptive and Cross-Sectional Study
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Aim: This study was conducted using a descriptive and cross-sectional method to determine the attitudes and experiences of intern nursing students toward the concept of death while providing care for individuals with cancer.
Methods: The sample of the study consists of 94 intern nurse students. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews using the data form including questions about sociodemographic characteristics and the concept of death, and the Frommelt Attitude Towards Care of the Dying Instrument. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used in the analysis of the data.
Results: Of the students 91.5% encountered the concept of death outside the clinical environment, while 70.2% encountered in the clinical setting, and 58.5% provided care for five or more dying patients. Of the students 67.1% had difficulties in the interviewing and data collection process, and 22.3% had difficulties in all nursing practices. 47.3% said they experienced helplessness, and 19.7% said they experienced grief. In the current study, it was found that the mean FATCOD score was 73.00 ± 8.70. There was a difference in the scale scores in terms of the students' status of feeling comfortable talking to a cancer patient about the concept of death (p<0.05).
Conclusions: Intern nursing students have experienced helplessness. Students need strategies focusing on all stages of the nursing process in both theoretical and clinical practice.
Anahtar Kelimeler
attitude toward death, individual with cancer, intern nurses, nursing
Teşekkür
We would like to thank all the intern nurses of valuable contributions to this study.
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