PURPOSE: This research used quantitative research to identify differences in death consciousness between pre and post education. The study was also designed to further understanding of the effects of nursing education by using a qualitative analysis to examine hospice education experience. METHOD: This study a one group pre-post test design. RESULTS: 1. The mean score for the students' death consciousness before the hospice education averaged 2.15+/- .33, a medium level for death consciousness. The score after education was 2.25+/- .36, that is, there was higher score for death consciousness after education. 2. The result of classification, giving their names and categorizing the experience of being in a coffin shown to be self-reflection, regret, recognition to death, death as discontinuation of life, the last closing from everything, death as a sad and cruel event, death as another world, specialist intuition of nursing. CONCLUSION: This research provided an opportunity for nursing students to consider death earnestly and realistically through hospice nursing education. We also discovered affirmative changes in the students' viewpoint of death, students who in future clinical practice may work with elders. We also found increases in motives to develop ability to present effective aid to dying patients.
Classification ; Consciousness ; Education* ; Education, Nursing ; Evaluation Studies as Topic ; Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing ; Hospices* ; Humans ; Intuition ; Nursing ; Specialization ; Students, Nursing

OBJECTIVES: To uncover gynecologic conditions with similar transvaginal sonographic findings of thick uterine endometrium with honeycomb appearance in pre-and postmenopausal women.METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed cases of patients with endometrial tissue biopsy from January 2010 to December 2016. We also collected office flexible hysteroscopic findings and surgical pathologic results. We analyzed data from 393 patients with confirmed endometrial pathology. Among these patients, 69 had transvaginal ultrasonographic images with thick uterine endometrium and honeycomb or “Swiss cheese” appearance.RESULTS: We found gynecologic conditions such as submucosal leiomyoma with degeneration, endometrial polyp, pseudocystic endometrial change associated with tamoxifen use, progesterone associated endometrial change, pyometra, retained placenta, and uterine synechiae manifested with similar thick endometrium with “Swiss cheese” appearance in transvaginal sonographic images. The most common diagnosis in postmenopausal women was atrophic endometritis, followed by endometrial cancer and endometrial polyps. The most common diagnosis in premenopausal women was abnormal uterine bleeding without pathologic conditions.CONCLUSIONS: Sonographic findings of thick uterine endometrium with “Swiss cheese” appearance need to be considered together with a thorough review of the patient's history and chief complaint before making a tentative diagnosis due to the various conditions sharing the feature.
Biopsy ; Diagnosis ; Endometrial Neoplasms ; Endometritis ; Endometrium ; Female ; Gynatresia ; Humans ; Hyperplasia ; Leiomyoma ; Menopause ; Pathology ; Placenta, Retained ; Polyps ; Progesterone ; Pyometra ; Retrospective Studies ; Tamoxifen ; Ultrasonography ; Uterine Hemorrhage