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To explore nursing students' experiences of death and dying in clinical practice.

The encounter with death constitutes one of the most stressful experiences reported by nursing students during their clinical training. In particular, it can be difficult for student nurses to cope with the patient's suffering, to provide postmortem care and to communicate with the patient and his/her family as death approaches. Although some research has been carried out in relation to this phenomenon, there remains a need to identify and understand the situations and experiences that are of most concern to students, those which may affect their ability to cope and, therefore, interfere with the care they are able to offer to the dying patient and his/her family.

Qualitative descriptive and hermeneutic study.

Semi‐structured interviews (n = 12) were conducted with nursing students. Data were …