Kim Ekelund, Martin Grønnebæk Tolsgaard, Rikke Vita Borre Jacobsen, Doris Østergaard, Karlen Bader-Larsen
Learning strategies for the advanced trainee in specialist training
Medical teacher
rising number people endstage chronic diseases demand hospice care increased dramatically future health professionals implementation hospice care undergraduate nursing students mainland china still lack knowledge skills hospice care thus hospice care education plays vital role development understand effects hospice care education nursing students death attitudes endoflife attitudes humanistic care qualities learning experiences study used mixedmethods design university chinese medicine mainland china firstyear undergraduate nursing students n 65 mixedmethods study conducted evaluate impact hospice care course march june 2021 quantitative part included quasiexperimental study designed pre postintervention measurements qualitative part included descriptive qualitative study semistructured individual interviews quantitative data revealed course nursing students experienced improvements death attitudes endoflife attitudes humanistic care qualities two categories identified qualitative data category gain learning included 4 themes confronting death thinking life understanding agreeing idea hospice care perceiving humanistic spirit medicine enhancing nursing discipline cognition professional identity category course feedback included 2 themes expressing recognition course arrangement making suggestions course optimization hospice care education positive influence nursing students students expressed satisfaction course arrangement however future hospice care courses optimize curriculum designs increasing discussion deathrelated topics sharing real clinical cases recruiting students different majors providing clinical practice provide highquality nursing education development hospice care