Nurses are frequently exposed to dying patients and death in the course of their work. This
experience makes individuals conscious of their own mortality, often giving rise to anxiety …

Death anxiety, a negative affective state that is incited by mortality salience, may be
experienced by nurses and other health care workers who are exposed to sickness, trauma …

Background Caring for dying patients is stressful but an unavoidable responsibility of
nurses. However, little is known about Chinese oncology nurses' experience of caring for …

Aim To describe nursing students' knowledge, attitudes and self‐efficacy about palliative
care and to examine the associations between these variables in China. Design A …

Background: Caring of the dying patients and facing the death can be a stressful and difficult
experience for nurses. Besides personal and professional experiences, nurses' own …

To effectively participate in provision of palliative care, nurses need to possess a
combination of knowledge, skills, and positive attitudes in equal measure in a way that is …

Background: Education about caring for dying patients could be effective in changing
nursing students' attitude toward caring for dying patients. Aim: The aim of the present study …

Objective: To examine Chinese clinical nurses' attitudes towards death and caring for dying
patients, and to examine the relationships between clinical nurses' attitudes towards death …

Thanatophobia is omnipresent in our lives. Research has shown separate but connected
constructs: fear of death or fear of the dying process. The influences on death anxiety are …

Objective: Palliative care requires nurses to be knowledgeable about different aspects of the
care that they provide for dying patients. This study, therefore, was conducted to examine …