Nursing Students' Reactions to an Educational Experiential Immersion in Palliative Care.

摘要: BACKGROUND The nursing role includes providing compassionate care at the end of life, yet many nurses feel unprepared to provide such care. We describe students' reactions during participation in an experiential immersion palliative which they interacted with seriously ill patients through gifting handmade shawls. METHOD After gifting, students wrote three words that best described feeling room. Responses were content-analyzed assess frequency specific concepts produced Three Words task. Gifting Reflection narratives used characterize content-analysis categories. RESULTS Nursing most common responses reflected categories Comfort and Kindness, Thankfulness Appreciation. Students also reported Sorrow Need, but positive themes Happiness Delight, Calm Reflective equally as prevalent. CONCLUSION Experiential learning focuses on psychosocial can result having positive, meaningful experiences caring for patients. [J Nurs Educ. 2018;57(11):675-679.].