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My Patient Died: A National Study Of Nursing Students Perceptions After Experiencing A Patient Death, Barabara Heise, Debra Wing
My Patient Died: A National Study Of Nursing Students Perceptions After Experiencing A Patient Death, Barabara Heise, Debra Wing
Journal of Undergraduate Research
The purpose of this national study was to answer the following questions:
- What is the prevalence of nursing students encountering death in the clinical setting?
- What are the perceptions of nursing student’s first clinical encounter with death?
- What are the students’ perceptions of their knowledge and communication abilities to manage patient situations at end-of-life (EOL)?
- What actions by nurse educators might mitigate this potentially stressful situation according to students?