Exploring Undergraduate Nursing Students' Experiences of End-of-Life Conversations
| dc.contributor.advisor | Laing, Catherine | |
| dc.contributor.author | D'Souza, Cheryl | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Raffin-Bouchal, Shelley | |
| dc.contributor.committeemember | Moules, Nancy | |
| dc.date | 2022-11 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-25T15:40:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-25T15:40:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-10-18 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Nurses report that communicating with patients and families about End of Life (EOL) issues is one of the most challenging aspects of providing EOL care. Many nurses enter practice not feeling prepared or confident to talk about death and dying, and research related to how student nurses encounter EOL conversations in their practicums is lacking. We investigated final year undergraduate nursing students’ experiences of having EOL conversations with patients and family members in their clinical settings. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using Braun and Clark’s (2006) framework of thematic analysis (TA). A total of five participant interviews were conducted and analysed to yield the following four themes: attitudes towards death and death talk; nursing students’ inner world during EOL conversations; recognizing, communicating, and responding to patients; and the student nurse role in EOL conversations. For nursing students, engaging in EOL conversations with patients and their families is experienced as a complex intellectual and emotional process. Students often fear saying the wrong thing and feel uncertain in knowing how to navigate these conversations. Implications for practice include addressing the gaps in EOL communication content and training in the nursing programs. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | D'Souza, C. (2022). Exploring undergraduate nursing students’ experiences of End-of-Life conversations (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/115377 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/40366 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Nursing | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Calgary | en |
| dc.rights | University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nursing students | en_US |
| dc.subject | End-of-life conversations | en_US |
| dc.subject | Experiences | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | Nursing | en_US |
| dc.title | Exploring Undergraduate Nursing Students' Experiences of End-of-Life Conversations | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Nursing | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Calgary | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Nursing (MN) | en_US |
| ucalgary.item.requestcopy | true | en_US |