Korean Journal of Adult Nursing (성인간호학회지)

Korean Society of Adult Nursing (한국성인간호학회)
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A Meaning of Death through Emotional Expression about Death after Nursing and Medical Students' End-of-Life Care Practice

간호대학생과 의과대학생의 임종돌봄 실습 후 죽음 정서의 의미

  • Jo, Kae-Hwa (College of Nursing, Catholic University of Daegu)
  • 조계화 (대구가톨릭대학교 간호대학)
  • Received : 2010.04.19
  • Accepted : 2010.06.20
  • Published : 2010.06.30
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Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the meaning of death experienced by medical and nursing students through end-of-life care practice. Methods: Data were collected by in-depth interviews with twelve (six nursing and six medical) students. Conventional qualitative content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: This findings were analyzed in three areas: 'feeling from the word of death', 'color association of death', and 'relation between life and death'. Results were three major themes and sixteen categories from the analysis. Three major themes include 'reality of uncertain death', 'have to leave, and 'new perception about death'. Sixteen categories include 'being well', 'fear', 'unknown', 'boundless', 'being with', 'out of sight', 'new start', 'go back to', 'place going by itself', 'place to meet with', 'being transformed', 'a sense of futility', 'the same point', 'a different point', 'continuous line', and 'a crossroad'. Conclusion: The findings suggest a number of themes that nursing and medical students reported about the end of life experiences that could be explored as a way of improving end of life care.

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