1. What is the nature of nurses’ earliest memorable experiences with patient death?
2. Do nurses’ earliest memorable patient deaths have an impact on them, personally or professionally?
3. What cognitive, emotional and clinical challenges do nurses face when they experience patient death for the first time? How do nurses cope with these demands?
4. Do nurses recall positive, rewarding and satisfying aspects to their earliest memorable patient death experiences? What factors are associated with such
aspects?
5. Do nurses’ feel that they were adequately prepared for early nursing encounters with death and dying?
