PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Slováková, Jana
TI  - RELATION BETWEEN NURSING EDUCATION AND ATTITUDES OF NURSES TOWARD DEATH
DP  - 2010 Apr 1
TA  - Profese Online
PG  - 71--102
VI  - 3
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/pol.2010.008
IS  - 18034330
AB  - Aim: The main aim is to examine attitudes of nurses toward death in relation to educational attainment and also to examine significant differences in preference of these attitudes between groups of nurses divided by educational attainment.Methods: We used as research instrument "Death Attitudes Profile - Revised" in our research.Results: We evaluated results in five groups of nurses, broken down by educational attainment - Hight school for nursing, Higher education in nursing, Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, Other's degree - specialization in nursing. On the basis of analyzing the data, we found that in the whole sample of nurses was at least represented attitude - Fear of death and the most preferred was a Neutral acceptance. An exception formed the group of nurses with other levels of education, which most preferred attitude of Escape acceptance. Statistically significant differences seen in the attitudes of Death avoidance, Approach acceptance and Escape acceptance. Nurses with educational attainment (Hight school for nursing, Higher education in nursing, Bachelor's degree) more prefer the attitude of avoiding death, while nurses with Master's degree prefer this attitude less. Nurse education (Hight school for nursing, Higher education in nursing, Bachelor's degree) more prefer the attitude of approach acceptance, nurses with Master's degree this attitude prefer less. Nurses with educational attainment (Hight school for nursing, Higher education in nursing) more prefer the attitude Escape acceptance while nurses with Bachelor and Master's degree of nursing prefer this attitude less.Conclusion: Based on our results we could note that there is clearly demonstrated the impact of education in shaping attitudes in nurses.