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Nurses' Attitude Toward Caring for Dying Patients in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital.
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- Death as a Professional Challenge: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Exposure to Patient Death, Occupational Burnout, and Perceptions of Death Among Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinicians.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Relationship between nurses' fatalistic dispositions and their attitudes towards euthanasia, death, and terminally ill patients: a cross-sectional survey.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Article
- The relationship between death and hospice care attitudes among nursing interns: a cross-sectional survey.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Personality disorder functioning styles and empathy in trainee nurses: the mediating and moderating roles of death attitudes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A qualitative exploration of Irish nursing students' experiences of caring for the dying patient.Nursing open · 2023Article
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Abstract
introductionDeath and the dying experience are common phenomena in all clinical settings. Death and the dying presents physical and emotional strain on the dying patient, his relations and professional caregivers.
objectiveThe study therefore assessed the sociodemographic determinants of nurses' attitudes towards death and caring for dying patient.
methodA cross-sectional design was used to study 213 randomly selected nurses, working in one of the tier one teaching hospital in Nigeria. Attitude towards death and the dying was collected with Frommelt Attitude Care of the Dying and Death Attitude Profit-Revised questionnaire. The data collected was analysed with SPSS version 20 and inferential analyses were considered statistically significant at p < 0.05.
resultsThe study revealed that most of the nurses had negative attitudes toward the concept of death (76.5%) and caring for dying patient (68%). Furthermore, a chi-square test revealed significant associations between the nurses' years of working experience (χ
conclusionThis study concluded that nurses had negative attitudes towards death and dying and therefore prescribes, as part of continuing professional development strategy, the need for requisite positive value - laden, ethnoreligious specific education regarding end of life care.
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