title: Innovations in bereavement education.
abstract: Advanced practice nursing students provide care for clients and families in numerous settings where they will encounter end-of-life issues. Thus, graduate nursing education should include information on current trends in thanatology, such as the debate over the proposed complicated grief criteria and the paradigmatic shift toward evidence-based grief theory. In this article, an innovative approach to teaching bereavement content to graduate nursing students during a 3-hour class is presented. The assignments were developed specifically for adult learners with clinical experience. Students' responses to the learning activities and recommendations for modifications of the teaching methods are presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, The University of Scranton, Scranton, PA 18510, USA. wrightp2@scranton.edu
authors.forename: Patricia Moyle
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D057179:Advanced Practice Nursing / Q000193:education*; D001601:Bereavement; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013795:Thanatology; D014481:United States