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KMID : 1003020060070020073
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Qualitative Research
2006 Volume.7 No. 2 p.73 ~ p.83
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Meaning of Death Reflected in Nursing Students’ Essay
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Cho Myung-Ok
Kim Hae-Ok
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Death is an universal experience of all human, but it’s meanings are specific to the cultures and individual. The purpose of this qualitative research was to explore the meanings of death among the nursing students. The data were 92 essays entitled ‘reflex on death of myself’ These texts were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Selected analysing constituents were time, space, and relationship. Three meanings on the death were found: diaspora of being, separation from everyday life and normality, and changing an attitude to a life and death. These meanings were constructed by a journey on their lives from past to future. Reflection on death of oneself and results of the research has it’s meaning on the nursing education and practice for the dying patients.
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KEYWORD
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Death, Meaning, Essay
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