Death to the status of nursing practice and its effect on the prevalence of nurses' attitudes towards death

The aim of this study is to determine nurses attitudes towards death and effects of confrontation of deaths? on this attitudes. A descriptive method is used to analyze nurses? attitudes towards death. This research was applied to the nurses who were volunteer to attend this research and who worked in Ataturk Tranining and Research Hospital and Gulhane Military Medical Academy. The sample of this research is consisted of 214 nurses who work in both hospital. The data of this research was collected within face to face interviews by the help of general information collecting form (individual data collecting form) and ?Death Attitudes Profile ? Revised ( DAP-R)?. The reliability and validity tests of DAP-R were made in 2008. Descriptive statistical methods were used in data analyses. Statistics were analyzed and interpretted via t-test and ANOVA test.The findings of this study showed that nurses? attitudes toward to death were effected by frequencies of confrontations of death, economic conditions of nurses, their ages, prior their psychiatric illness and their ongoing psychiatric illness. There was no difference between nurses? attitudes towards death and the other variables was used in this study.