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1. Listen to the tape time and again and transcribe them into transcriptions, then read their words repeatedly combining with the non-verbal communications till feelings resonate. | |
2. Extract Significant statements which are relevant to the death experience of nursing students from each transcript. | |
3. Formulate meanings from significant statements and code them. Codes should be approved by all researchers. | |
4. Cluster these codes. | |
5. Confirm findings and identify difference by comparing transcriptions and sub-themes, themes more than once. | |
6. Describe the theme and essence of nursing students’ experience by their own statements to insure the validity of study. | |
7. Return each transcript and result to participants to affirm the findings. |