Thrush J C, Paulus G S, Thrush P I
Death Educ. 1979 Summer;3(2):131-42. doi: 10.1080/07481187908252946.
A stratified random sample of 226 U.S. nursing schools was surveyed to determine the extent and nature of current death education training for nursing students. Of the 205 responding schools, 5 percent reported offering a required death and dying course, while an additional 39.5 percent indicated that a death and dying course was available for their students on an elective basis. The authors challenge the current pedagogical approach toward death education in U.S. nursing schools. They propose the need for the development of a model that would formally link a death education course, or courses, with the clinical phase of training. It is hypothesized that such an approach would enhance the nursing students' recognition and management of their feelings regarding death and dying and therefore result in more effective means of relating to terminally ill patients.
对226所美国护理学校进行分层随机抽样调查，以确定当前针对护理专业学生的死亡教育训练的程度和性质。在205所回复的学校中，5%报告开设了死亡与临终必修课，另有39.5%表示为学生提供了死亡与临终选修课。作者对美国护理学校目前的死亡教育教学方法提出质疑。他们建议需要开发一种模式，将一门或多门死亡教育课程与临床培训阶段正式联系起来。据推测，这种方法将增强护理专业学生对自身有关死亡与临终感受的认知和处理能力，从而产生与绝症患者建立联系的更有效方式。
