Guanyu Chen, Yan Liu, Yue Mao
Understanding the log file data from educational and psychological computer-based testing: A scoping review protocol
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course caring nurses often experience death patients experience effect nurse every nurse responds experience different way either negative emotional response positive emotional response part curriculum r425 firstyear student nurses placed clinical facilities acquire competency nursing skills may exposed patients dying r425 south african nursing council regulation relating approval minimum requirements education training nurse general psychiatric community midwife leading registration endoflife care rewarding yet emotionally psychologically challenging little known r425 firstyear student nurses experiences patients dying cared nurses clinical placement study therefore explored describes r425 firstyear student nurses experiences death patient clinical placement qualitative exploratory descriptive contextual research design adopted purposive nonprobability sampling approach applied data collected unstructured individual interviews 15 r425 firstyear student nurses data analysed using content analysis four themes emerged namely knowledge psychological trauma low selfesteem nutritional disorders subthemes identified results reveal negative positive responses encountering death patients negative responses fewer positive responses results show firstyear student nurses struggle cope death patient mainly lack knowledge skills required provide endoflife nursing requirement student nurses competent skill last office involves laying dead person skill deferred first year study introduced later stage either third year fourth year study students better equipped knowledge skills relating dealing death need review curriculum r425 firstyear student nurses outcomes death dying introduced third fourth year study