The Effect of Death Education on Nursing College Students\' Attitudes toward Death and Their Nursing Behaviors in Caring for the Dying Patients

After attending the course of life and death education 72 nursing students have cared terminally ill patients within six month since graduated from college. The other 72 nurses working in the same hospital and unit are the control group.

Data collection tools include the coping with death scale designed by Bugen and dying patients\' caring scale designed by author. Death education has significantly improve students\' death competence but not positively terminally ill behavior, therefore nursing students should attend professional nursing programs.