title: Effects of a Simulation Exercise on Nursing Students' End-of-Life Care Attitudes.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Students consider end-of-life care content in their nursing curricula to be inadequate and deficient in promoting the development of the necessary attitudes to care for dying patients. Research identifies simulation as an effective teaching strategy to examine nursing students' attitudes toward end-of-life care.
  
  
  METHODS
  An end-of-life care simulation was developed, implemented, and evaluated. Attitudes toward caring for dying patients were measured pre- and postsimulation on a convenience sample of 57 sophomore nursing students using the Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Scale-Form B. Repeated measures of ANOVA on outcome variables evaluated student attitudes toward end-of-life care.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participation in an end-of-life care simulation resulted in more positive student attitudes toward caring for dying patients (p < .001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Simulation is an active learning strategy to incorporate end-of-life care in nursing curricula and improve student attitudes toward caring for dying patients. [J Nurs Educ. 2016;55(12):701-705.].
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dame
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hoebeke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001293:Attitude to Death; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024802:Nurse's Role; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D000066908:Simulation Training / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult