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Objectives: This study is conducted to determine nursing students’ death anxiety, request of caring for dying people and influencing factors. Methods: Cross-sectional planned research was conducted at Aydın Health College of Adnan Menderes University, in April and May 2014. Research field consisted of Nursing Departmen students and the research sample comprised of two hundered and thirty tree nursing students. Research data was collected with personal information form and Thorson-Powell Death Anxiety Scale. Complimentory statistics, chisquare and student-t test were used during the analysis of the data. Results: The avarage age of the nursing students is 20.08±1.36. 82.4% of students were female and %17.6 were male. It was understood that most of the students define death as a new begining and they feel sadness after the death of the paticient that they care for. 75% of students indicated that they don’t want to care for a dying patient while 25% of students expressed they were eager to care for. The avarage of all students’ death anxiety point is 59.15±14.94. It was found that female students compared to male students and students who lost someone they know, compared to students who don’t, were less eager to care for a dying patient. The death anxiety of female students was found higher compared to male students. It is determined that most of the nursing students crying reaction and apply praying method in order to cope with the sorrow. Conclusion: This study indicates that more than half of the students encoenter death at any term of their lifes, this situation increases death anxiety and students with high death anxiety don’t want to care for a dying patient. This study also points out that students who are going to be health care staff need consulting service to decrease death anxiety and education in which they efficiently use coping methods.

Nursing students’ death anxiety, influencing factors and request of caring for dying people