PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify what nurses want to know most about death education and to obtain baseline data to improve nurses' training and education. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING Seven hospitals in Shanghai, China. SAMPLE 617 RNs. METHODS A cross-sectional survey using a self-report questionnaire was administered to a purposive sample of RNs. The data were analyzed with ...

Death fear is defined as a morbid, abnormal or persistent anxiety of one's own death or the process of his/her dying. Fear of death is a feeling of dread, apprehension or solicitude (anxiety) when one thinks of the process of dying, or ceasing to ‘be’. Nurses, as healthcare professionals, are exposed to dying patients and their beliefs about death phenomenon can impact on their general health. ...

University can be a tumultuous time for many students, bringing new opportunities, responsibilities, and independence into the forefront of our lives. This significant life change stressful enough as is, but when you add grief loss equation, things become quickly overwhelming. Death is not given space in public discourse, resulting greater society that denial realities loss, how it affects us i...

Thanatology is the academic study of dying, death and grief. It encompasses thoughts, feelings, attitudes, events and the psychological mechanisms of dealing with them. Death obsession includes ruminations, repetitive, intrusive thoughts or images about death. Death obsession in the nursing profession can occur on a daily basis, and communication with dying patients can be stressful for nurses....

The new guidelines for undergraduate courses in the field of health care imply a need to prepare professionals to deal with life and death. To study death and dying in the context of nurse education means to contribute to the humanization of education and to preparing humanistic and critical professionals. We performed individual interviews with professors so that each could reveal their though...

The new guidelines for undergraduate courses in the field of health care imply a need to prepare professionals to deal with life and death. To study death and dying in the context of nurse education means to contribute to the humanization of education and to preparing humanistic and critical professionals. We performed individual interviews with professors so that each could reveal their though...

Irving Cooper describes his life as a neurosurgeon in a way that is interesting and often so inspiring to patients that Dr. MacDonald Critchley compares Cooper's message to the inscription over the gateway to the medical facility at the University of Wales: "Without inspiration, technical skill is not enough." Not Quite a Miracle is not quite an inspiration. The idea of having a subject index s...

‘Deficit omne quod nascitur’, the Roman rhetorician Marcus Fabius Quintilianus wrote in his opus magnus “Institutio oratoria”. As death is an immanent part of human life, death and the medical profession are inseparably connected. The process of dying and death is complex, spanning the continuum of palliative care, diagnosis and certification of death, performance of last offices, and support o...