Assessment of the Competence of Nurses in Taking Care of a Dying Patient in Poland.

During nursing education, few practical hours are devoted to comprehensively preparing students to care for a dying patient. Contact with a dying patient is a key element of the job of every working nurse in the profession. Therefore, it is necessary to properly prepare nurses to care for a dying patient. This study aimed to assess the professional competence of nurses in caring for a dying patient and the factors that affect this preparation. This study involved 223 nurses during master's degree in nursing at the Medical University of Warsaw, receiving either full-time education (group I, N = 121) or hybrid education (group II, N = 102). The study used the FATCOD-BP ((Frommelt Attitudes Toward the Care Of the Dying scale Form B, Polish version)) questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha 0.75), an original questionnaire containing questions about feelings experienced during the SARS-CoV-2 virus pandemic and sociodemographic questions. FATCOD-BP for all groups was below average regarding caring for a dying patient (M = 109, SD = 11.68). Nurses pursuing full-time education were better prepared to care for a dying patient than were nurses pursuing hybrid education. Nurses who exhibited fear of their own deaths had a lower subjective level of preparation for caring for a dying patient. (1) Nurses are not sufficiently prepared to care for a dying patient. (2) The training of nurses should be provided in the form of in-patient education, and the methods of training should be modified by increasing the number of hours of practical and theoretical instruction in palliative care for a dying patient.

Sadowska A ，Krzykwa I ，Czarkowska-Pączek B 《-》

Assessment of the Reliability of the Polish Language Version of the FATCOD-B Scale Among Nursing Students.

Sadowska A ，Nowak M ，Czarkowska-Pączek B 《-》

Development and Psychometric Testing Chinese Version of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale, Form B in Nurses and Nursing Students.

Wang LP ，Li YJ ，Yan WZ ，Li GM ... -  《-》

The Swedish version of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying scale: aspects of validity and factors influencing nurses' and nursing students' attitudes.

Henoch I ，Browall M ，Melin-Johansson C ，Danielson E ，Udo C ，Johansson Sundler A ，Björk M ，Ek K ，Hammarlund K ，Bergh I ，Strang S ... -  《-》

Undergraduate nursing students' attitudes and preparedness toward caring for dying persons - A longitudinal study.

Nursing education needs to prepare students for care of dying patients. The aim of this study was to describe the development of nursing students' attitudes toward caring for dying patients and their perceived preparedness to perform end-of-life care. A longitudinal study was performed with 117 nursing students at six universities in Sweden. The students completed the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) questionnaire at the beginning of first and second year, and at the end of third year of education. After education, the students completed questions about how prepared they felt by to perform end-of-life care. The total FATCOD increased from 126 to 132 during education. Five weeks' theoretical palliative care education significantly predicted positive changes in attitudes toward caring for dying patients. Students with five weeks' theoretical palliative care training felt more prepared and supported by the education to care for a dying patient than students with shorter education. A minority felt prepared to take care of a dead body or meet relatives.

Henoch I ，Melin-Johansson C ，Bergh I ，Strang S ，Ek K ，Hammarlund K ，Lundh Hagelin C ，Westin L ，Österlind J ，Browall M ... -  《-》