Compassionate care is a core concept in nursing. The difficulties in consoling patients at the end of life and the importance of therapeutic communication at this time can not be underestimated. Communicating with dying patients and their families is not an easy task, but, if student nurses in undergraduate programmes are taught through high fidelity simulation, it helps build self-confidence in creating the supportive environment necessary for patients and their families at this difficult time. Therefore, the Palliative Clinical Stream of SONAM organised simulation based activities with 42 nursing students from the Post RN programme participating in scenarios focusing on ‘Loss’ as part of their Palliative Care course.
At debriefing, students felt this learning opportunity brought positive changes in their attitudes and confidence level in dealing with end of life situations.
Compassionate care is a core concept in nursing. The difficulties in consoling patients at the end of life and the importance of therapeutic communication at this time can not be underestimated. Communicating with dying patients and their families is not an easy task, but, if student nurses in undergraduate programmes are taught through high fidelity simulation, it helps build self-confidence in creating the supportive environment necessary for patients and their families at this difficult time. Therefore, the Palliative Clinical Stream of SONAM organised simulation based activities with 42 nursing students from the Post RN programme participating in scenarios focusing on ‘Loss’ as part of their Palliative Care course.
At debriefing, students felt this learning opportunity brought positive changes in their attitudes and confidence level in dealing with end of life situations.