Background Patient death is an emotional and demanding experience for nurses, especially
for new graduate nurses who are unprepared to deliver end-of-life care. Understanding new …

Aims and objectives To review literature on nurses' coping strategies with patient death.
Background Dealing with the loss of a patient was viewed as one of the most demanding …

Background: It is important to understand how student nurses might feel when confronted
with a dying patient, so that appropriate support and education can be offered prior to their …

Purpose To explore the attitude of nursing professionals towards death. Design Systematic
qualitative review methods were used. Methods A search was conducted in the PubMed …

Aims and objectives To explore nursing students' experiences of death and dying in clinical
practice. Background The encounter with death constitutes one of the most stressful …

Aims and objectives. The aim of this study was to elucidate the experiences of first
encountering death by nursing students during clinical practice. The objective is to assist …

Aim To synthesise the experiences of nursing students encountering patient death and
caring for patients under palliative care or at end-of-life and their families in clinical settings …

BACKGROUND: Death has been identified as a known stressor for nurses and has been
extensively researched in nursing populations. However, very little is known about the …

Aim To describe the experiences of student nurses in confronting the death of their patients,
and to understand how they cope with these events and to what extent there are unmet …

Background Death and dying are inevitable life encounters, but a nurse's first experience
with patient death may pose considerable cognitive, emotional and clinical challenges. This …