Abstract

Nurses are the primary healthcare professionals that spend the most time caring for seriously ill patients. Nurses have a responsibility to care for patients at the end of their lives, to relieve pain, and promote dignity so that patients can experience a peaceful death. As our elderly population grows and chronic health problems increase, there is a need to teach nurses and nursing students End-of-Life Care (EOLC). New nurses must be properly prepared to provide sensitive, quality care to dying patients and their families. Nursing students do not have opportunities during clinical training to care for patients that are dying, and undergraduate education does not cover critical components of EOLC. These components may include how to talk to the dying patient and the family, pain control, and postmortem care. Therefore, further research is necessary to determine how to appropriately bridge this gap.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 10810792; ProQuest document ID: 2501457723. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Bethany A. Nasser, PhD, RN

Sigma Membership

Chi Epsilon

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Descriptive/Correlational

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

End-of-Life Care, Postmortum Care, Dying Patients, Novice Nurses, Families of Patients

Advisor

Kelly Fisher

Second Advisor

Richard Ochberg

Third Advisor

Jeanne Earle

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

Endicott College

Degree Year

2018

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Review Type

None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2021-09-27

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