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S B Brent

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PubMed1992

The attitudes of beginning nursing and medical students toward care of dying patients: a preliminary study.

The attitudes of entering classes of nursing and medical students toward the care of dying patients were compared using a self-administered instrument designed for the study measuring aversive and attractive components of these attitudes. Both groups exhibited similar aversive attitude items: Talking About Death elicited the most negative scores, General Interaction was slightly less negative, and Touching was the least negative. Among the attractive items, medical students were more positive on the Professional Challenge subscale, while the nursing students were more positive on the Personal Satisfaction subscale.

Adult↗
PubMed1984

Children's understanding of death: a review of three components of a death concept.

This review of the empirical literature on the development of the concept of death focuses on 3 components of that concept: irreversibility, nonfunctionality, and universality. These findings overall suggest that the majority of healthy children in modern urban-industrial societies achieve an understanding of all 3 components between 5 and 7 years of age. Since this is also the age at which most children make the transition from preoperational to concrete-operational thinking, some relationship between these 2 processes seems likely. However, attempts to empirically validate that relationship have thus far yielded ambiguous results. Possible reasons for this ambiguity are suggested.

Adolescent↗
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The effects of an AIDS diagnosis on undergraduate nursing students' care of dying patients.

Nurse educators frequently deal with nursing students' discomfort in learning to care for dying patients. However, teaching students how to care for dying patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) presents unique and interesting challenges. The authors describe the influence an AIDS diagnosis has on students' comfort levels in touching and talking to dying patients. Recommendations and teaching strategies to assist nurse educators are provided.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗