Table 1 Sample audit trail for analysis
Text segment | Findings | Category | Theme | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
“…learn something actually.” | Have learn something from university | Students learn something about end of life care from school | university provides foundational knowledge about end-of-life care, but it still needs be improved | |
“…what we leant was just several lectures in class period, it cannot be remembered.” | Learn is not enough | Knowledge is not enough so students can not consolidate knowledge well | ||
“…Practice makes me understand what I learn in school.” | clinical practice help students understand knowledge and skills | clinical practice is very useful in understanding knowledge | clinical practice drives and consolidates knowledge, skills and confidence about end-of-life care | |
“…clinical practice let me learn much more and feel confidence to do end-of -life care.” | Clinical practice improves confidence | clinical practice generates confidence in care | ||
“…In China, patients’ family decline to talk death. We can not do end-of -life care as we planned.” | cultural attitudes toward death sometimes make end-of -life care can not be scheduled | cultural attitudes of patients’ family toward death affect practice | cultural attitudes of patients’ family toward disease and death sometimes impedes learning and knowledge translation about end-of-life care | |
“…family members have inaccurate optimism about the diseases and hard to accept end-of-life care. | cultural attitudes toward disease make nurse students beconsumed with carrying out lifesaving measures | cultural attitudes of patients’ family toward disease affect practice | ||