ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify the death orientation of college student nurses and to evaluate the effectiveness in death orientation of a class on 'hospice care'. this was done by investigating the difference between the death orientation before and after the class. METHOD: The instrument used in this investigation was the death orientation scale developed by Thorson and Powell (1988). The subjects of the study were the 47 college student nurses in a 'hospice care' class. The research was carried out between March 2, 2001, when the class began, and June 21, 2001 when the class ended. The collected data were examined using arithmetic mean, percentage, t-test, ANOVA. RESULT: The results of the study are as follows: 1. The average death orientation score of the subjects before the class was 2.80. 2. There were a significant difference in the death orientation scores before and after the class (p0.05). CONCLUSION: This study showed that a class on hospice care was effective in changing the death orientation of student nurses.