Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: Comments, thoughts and feelings expressed by nursing students after their observation of dissected cadavers during a college course of anatomy were analyzed to determine the role of this experience in nursing education. The written comments of the nursing students were compared with those of the students of physical and occupational therapies. Most students including the nursing majors evaluated this experience as an opportunity to better understanding of anatomy and to ponder on the issues of life and death and body-donation. Comparative content analysis of the comments identified distinguishable characteristics in the nursing students' responses. They tended to observe the organs and bodies from the viewpoint of nursing, and to make efforts to overcome their initial feelings of anxiety and disgust. They were more attentive than students of other disciplines to individual differences of those persons who had donated their cadavers in terms of life history, gender, age and the type of the disease they had suffered from. We conclude that it is important for instructors in nursing edudation to design a nursing curriculum in congruence with this experience of cadavers study and to support the students' emotional developments.
Language: Japanese
Subfield: Biomedical Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7208552302