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Abstract
Background: Oncology nurses play role in the care of individuals and their families in all stages of cancer, from diagnosis to death. Nurses play a key role in providing care at end of life. Aim of the study: Assess nurses’ attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients at Oncology Center-Mansoura University. Method: A descriptive research design was used. Study subjects: All available nurses (50), with various age, different qualifications, years of experience, and level of education who provide direct care for patients at end of life, accepted to participate voluntary in the study and gave consents. One tool was used for data collection, Nurses’ attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients questionnaires. This tool was adopted by Dekock, (2011), it contains 51 items, and divided in to four main parts, (1) socio-demographic and career characteristics (2) Frommelt Attitude Towards Care of Dying (FATCOD) Scale, was applied to assess the oncology nurse’s attitudes towards caring for patient that is dying. (3) Work satisfaction of nurses, it was developed by Biton &Tabak (2002), to assess work satisfaction of the nurses using Likert scale questionnaires, (4) Working environment support of nurses, it was developed by cashavelly (2008), to assess level of support in the working environment using Likert scale questionnaires Results: the present study revealed that (100%) of study subject perceived as positive attitude towards care of dying. On other hand, (58%) of study subject perceived as unsatisfied work satisfaction. Show that (86%) of the study subject perceived as supported in working environment of oncology nurse. Conclusion: The overall of oncology nurses have a positive attitude toward patients at end of life. There were no differences between nurses’ age, level of education, years of experiences, or even attending training programs, courses regarding their attitudes toward death and caring for dying patients.It was observed that the scores for environmental support were much higher than the ranges for work satisfaction. The study recommended that evaluation of nurses’ performance for caring of death and dying patients is needed and may be useful in helping to explain why all nurses have positive attitudes toward death and dying patients, factors relating to nurses’ caring behaviors for dying patients should be studied and is needed, replication different and large sample size, age groups, locations, races, or cultures to determine the generalizability, it is also important for a number of reasons, including (1) assurance that results are valid and reliable; (2) determination of generalizability or the role of extraneous variables; (3) application of results to real world situations; and (4) inspiration of new research combining previous findings from related studies.