Effective communication skills are required when nurses care for patients and their families
navigating life-limiting illness and the end of life. Educators have made great strides in
integrating end-of-life content into prelicensure curricula. It is critical to evaluate nursing
students' perceptions of their communication skills to empirically guide the development and
implementation of future education interventions. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive
study was to explore nursing students' perceptions of their verbal and nonverbal …