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Senior Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, And Confidence With End-Of-Life Care, Blanca E. Miller
Senior Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, And Confidence With End-Of-Life Care, Blanca E. Miller
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Background: Advance directives allow patients to put in writing the type of health care they want if they are unable to make decisions due to their medical condition. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in senior nursing students’ knowledge, attitudes, and confidence based on when the information is positioned in the curriculum. Theoretical: Social cognitive learning theory and Zimmerman’s self-regulation model provided the theoretical framework. Methods: This study reflected a non-experimental, exploratory design, with a convenience sample of senior nursing students from 2 different nursing programs in central Illinois. One program offers advance …