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KMID : 0869520130190020088
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Journal of East-West Nirsing Research
2013 Volume.19 No. 2 p.88 ~ p.95
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A Study on the Nursing Student’s Attitude Toward Death and Perception on Hospice Care
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Lee Hyun-Jung
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine nursing students’ attitude toward death and perception on hospice care.
Methods: The survey was performed on 103 nursing students in one university in Goseong-gun, Gangwon-do. The data were collected by questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics.
Results: Regarding the attitude toward death, 90.3% of the students had thought about death. They worried about sense of loss and sadness due to parting with family (31.1%). About half (51.5%) of the students considered death as a final process of the life. With regard to the perception of hospice, 92.2% of the students heard about hospice through books or nursing classes (65.0%). Public institutions running by government was considered to the students as the best hospice management institution (44.7%). The students thought a ideal model of hospice setting in Korea was hospital or institution specialized with hospice care (51.5%). They considered the barriers to effective hospice care in Korea was the lack of the public consensus on the need for hospice program (35.9%). The average perceptions about the purpose of hospice care was 4.33 whereas the average of the need of hospice care was 3.85.
Conclusion: The findings of the study provide the basis for expanding nursing practice and education related to hospice care.
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KEYWORD
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Death, Hospice, Nursing student
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