Nurses and Dying

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The paper presents a critique of a research article that follows standard article critique format. The paper demonstrates that the article, "Nursing Experience and the Care of Dying Patients" by Karen S. Dunn et. al. published in Oncology Nursing Forum in 2005, is an adequate example of research, is well structured and, while not conclusive in its findings, demonstrates solid analytical skills on the part of the authors.

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"Karen S. Dunn, Cecilia Otten and Elizabeth Stephens wrote and published an article entitled, "Nursing Experience and the Care of Dying Patients," in Oncology Nursing Forum. Well designed, crafted, and carried out, this research study demonstrates that the greater the level of skill and experience a nurse has, there is a corollary increase in the quality of and experience with patient care for the dying. It is based on the hypothesis that experienced nurses will be able to better distance themselves from the death aspect of dying and focus a greater level of attention on the comfort, care and final experiences of the patient. The authors sought, "to examine the relationships among demographic variables (e.g. gender, age, race, religious affiliation, level of education, years of nursing experience, contact with terminally ill or dying patients) and nurses' attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients."

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