Death affects us all. It is an inevitable certainty of living, universally faced by all human beings. Currently, and projected into the future, the vast majority of people in developed countries will die in an acute-care hospital. Nurses, of all the health professionals encounter dying patients and death more frequently than any other group. Caring for an adult dying patient is complex and poses many challenges when undertaken in an acute-care hospital. Understanding those challenges more completely, will enable students and new graduate nurses to be more adequately prepared by their undergraduate programs. This first Australian study sought to understand what the experience of caring for an adult dying patient and their family means to Australian students and new graduate nurses. A two-phase mixed method study design incorporating a longitudinal element was selected to conduct the research. It is named specifically as sequential explanatory because a quantitative study was conducted initially, followed by a qualitative study.
Date of Award | 2011 |
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Original language | English |
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- terminal care
- Australia
- nurse and patient
- intensive care nursing
- nursing
- practice
- death
Nursing the dying : a mixed method study
Johnson, A. (Author). 2011
Western Sydney University thesis: Doctoral thesis