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This research, thus, intends to determine the relationship of certain characteristics, specifically the students‘ gender, year level and experience in caring for the dying patient, to his attitude towards death and dying.

Through a comparative-correlational study that described behavior, and the attitudes of the students towards care of a dying patient, and examined differences of attitudes between the two groups in relation to certain characteristics, specifically year level and gender, the relationship between the experiences of having cared for a dying patient towards one‘s attitude to a dying patient was established from the 57 BSN students of St. Paul University Manila selected through stratified sampling.The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) Scale was adopted to determine the attitude of the participants towards the care of the dying patient.

The study revealed that there is no significant difference between the students‘ gender to his attitude toward the care of a dying patient, there is a significant difference between the students‘ year level to his attitude toward the care of a dying patient is rejected, and the students‘ experience of caring for a dying patient has a significant relationship to his attitude toward the care of the dying patient.