[Death anxiety in nursing: experience in supporting of the death and field care].

Objective: The aim of this research is to determine the relationship between professional experience in palliative care, and the assistance area in which that palliative care occurs, and the degree of anxiety before the death in professional nursing. We also explored the relationships between demographic and work variables with death anxiety, replicating existing studies.

Method: Is a quantitative and descriptive and comparative study in 2009 in La Xarxa Sanitaria Santa Tecla in Tarragona.