Italian nursing students' attitudes towards care of the dying patient: A multi-center descriptive study
| Autor: | Daniela D'Angelo, Chiara Mastroianni, Giuseppe Casale, Marco Artico, Anna Marchetti, Paolo Carlo Motta, Michela Piredda, Diana Giannarelli, Maria Grazia De Marinis, Elisa Magna |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Attitude to Death
Palliative care Attitude of Health Personnel media_common.quotation_subject education Bachelor Education Formative assessment 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Surveys and Questionnaires International literature Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Curriculum General Nursing media_common Terminal Care 030504 nursing Cross-Sectional Studies Lazio region Italy Students Nursing Descriptive research 0305 other medical science Psychology Dying care |
| Zdroj: | Nurse Education Today. 104:104991 |
| ISSN: | 0260-6917 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104991 |
| Popis: | International literature reports that nursing students feel unprepared when facing patients and families within dying care. They consider their curricula inadequate in teaching end-of-life care and promoting the attitudes required to care for dying patients. Findings of recent studies exploring nursing students' attitudes towards care of the dying patient are often contradictory.To explore Italian nursing students' attitudes towards caring for dying patients.A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted.The Bachelor's Degree in Nursing courses of four Universities of the Lazio Region.The sample included 1193 students.Data were collected between September 2017 and March 2018 using the Italian version of FATCOD-B-I. The differences between the mean scores were compared through t-test or ANOVA. Associations between scores and participant characteristics were evaluated through generalized linear regression.The mean score of FATCOD-B-I was 115.3 (SD = 9.1). Higher scores were significantly associated with training in palliative care (p 0.0001) and experience with terminally ill patients (p 0.0001). Students manifested more negative attitudes when they perceived patients losing hope of recovering, and patient's family members interfering with health professionals' work. Uncertainties emerged around knowledge of opioid drugs, decision-making, concepts of death and dying, management of mourning, and relational aspects of patient care.Italian nursing students seem to have more positive attitudes towards care of dying patients than most other countries. They believe that caring for a terminal patient is a formative, useful experience but they do not feel adequately prepared in practice. Deeper palliative care education, integrated with practical training, would prepare students better, enabling them to discover their own human and professional capacity to relieve suffering. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|
Full Text from ScienceDirect