Table 4 Themes and sub-themes of the most impressive death experience among nursing students
Themes | Sub-themes | Details |
|---|---|---|
1. Emotional experience | Anticipations of experiencing patients’ deaths before entering clinical practice | Taboo Fear Unprepared Natural Acceptance |
Feelings witnessing a patient’s death | Scared Curious Startle Regretted Helpless | |
Feelings after patient death | Dread Guilty Sadness Pity Upset Worry | |
2. Challenge | Cognition | Blind denial Obsessive thinking |
Somatization | Poor appetite Sleeplessness Visual illusion | |
Habit | Irregular of diet Refuse to meat | |
Profession | Empathy fatigue Emotion contagion Knowledge gap | |
3. Growth | Personal growth | Attention of health Awareness of cherish |
Professional growth | Life responsibility Professional identity | |
4. Coping | Exploratory method | Sharing with trust one Writing down |
Avoidant method | Do not remind death experience Transformation to other things Avoidance | |
5. Support | Clinical teachers | Give ear to students Provide experience relating to death Provide positive coping methods |
Education | Knowledge about death Skills to deal with death |