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Table 2 Themes and subthemes

From: R425 first year student nurses ‘experience of encounters with death of a patient during clinical placement

Themes

Subthemes

Knowledge

• Lack of knowledge

• Denial

• Empowerment

Psychological trauma

• Terrified

• Stressed

• Insomnia

Low self-esteem

• Feeling worthless

• Feeling of not belonging

• Loss of confidence

Nutritional disorder

• Lack of appetite