The purpose of the study was to investigate the nursing students' attitudes toward death, care fore the hopeless patients, suicide, brain death, euthanasia and organ transplant according to their practice experience. This study will help nursing
practitioners in reviewing and evaluating the importance of hospice care and nursing teaching staff in formulating the related subjects in a nursing curriculum.
The questionnaires were mailed to nursing students (at one junior College and one University) in Daejeon area from March 15, 1993 to March 22, 1993. The survey instrument was questionnaire of 26 questions based on Edwin Shneidman's 21 questions
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questions in regard to euthanasia, brain death and organ transplant. The SPSS was used to Chi-square test.
@ES the conclusions can be drawn from the data gathered in this study:
@EN 1. The questions relating to nursing students' attitudes toward death according to practice experience:
1) 88.3% of the practice experienced students and 70.0% of the practice unexperienced students responsed that they 'have talked about death with others'(P<0.001).
2) 70.8% of the practice experienced students and 52.0% of the practice unexperienced students indicated that they 'have their philosophy toward life and death' (P<0.001).
3) 89.6% of the practice experienced students and 77.3% of the practice unexperienced students responsed that they 'want to of that have a terminal disease and a limited time to live' (P<0.01).
2. The questions relating to nursing students' for hopeless patients according to practice experience:
Suppose patients are aware of their hopelessness, 87.7% of the practice experienced students and 67.3% of the practice unexperienced students responded that they would 'help the patients to accept death and to arrange the rest of life' (P<0.001).
3. The question relating to nursing students' attitudes toward suicide according to practice experience:
71. 3% of the practice unexperienced students and 59.7% of the practice experienced students thought that 'suicide has no hereditary factor' )P<0.01).
4. The questions relating to nursing students' attitudes toward euthanasia, brain death and organ transplant according to practice experience:
1) 63.6% of the practice experienced students and 51.3% of the practice unexperienced students 'supported for the euthanasia' if they were aware of their incurable diseases (p<0.05).
2) 67.5% of the practice experienced students and 54.0% of the practice unexperienced students indicated that they 'agreed to accept brain death' (P<0.05).
3) 84.4% of the practice experienced students and 71.3% of the practice unexperienced students 'agreed with organ transplant' (P<0.05).
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