Investigation of the effects of nurses' death anxiety on their approach to deadly patient

This study was carried out to determine the death anxiety of nurses and to investigate the effect of death anxiety on their approach to the patient. This cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out with 240 nurses working in adult-bed service and intensive care units in Balcalı Hospital of medicine faculty, Çukurova University and the data of the study were obtained by using the Personal Information Form, Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale and Approach to Death and Dying Patients Attitude Scale. All of the necessary permissions were obtained from Çukurova University Ethics Committee and Chief Physician of Balcalı Hospital,Faculty of Medicine, Çukurova University. SPSS 20 program was used to evaluate the data. As the death anxiety of the nurses increased, the avoidance of the fatal patient was determined to decrease. According to the scores obtained from the Thorson-powell death anxiety scale, it was found that the nurses had a moderate avoidance attitude from the level of death anxiety, death and the approach to the approach to the fatal patient, and found themselves insufficient in the care of the deadly patient. In order to raise their awareness of their own feelings and thoughts, it may be advised to give trainings to nurses about death anxiety. This study is thought to contribute to the literature. It was determined that the nurses participating in the study were 85,4% female, 54,2% married, 56,2% graduate, and the average age was 30,78 + 8,55. It was determined that nurses frequently think about death (52,5%), they believe in life after death (91,7%), they feel grief-sadness when giving care to the terminal patient.