ATTITUDES AND COPING WITH THE DEATH OF NURSING STUDENTS

Abstract

Introduction: In health institutions, the health team and nursing students, during their hospital practices witness death, considered this as a process that exists in life, therefore, the attitude and coping taken before this situation is important. Objective: To determine the attitudes and coping with death of nursing students. Methods: Quantitative approach, with non-experimental, cross-sectional design. To collect the information, the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale and the Bugen Death Coping Scale were applied to a census sample of 74 nursing interns, the sample was a census sample. Results: It was determined that 100% of the study participants have inadequate coping to death. Twenty-eight percent have an attitude of fear of death; 22% indicate an attitude of acceptance of escape; 20% manifest an attitude of avoidance of death. Finally, 15% have manifested attitudes of acceptance of acceptance and neutral acceptance. Conclusions: Nursing students have attitudes of fear before death, as well as inadequate coping with death, which means that being in contact with the patient at the end of life affects them emotionally, leading them to feel guilty for not having been able to prolong the patient's life.