"O processo de morte e morrer da criança e do adolescente: vivências dos profissionais de enfermagem" / The process of death and dying of a child/adolescent: revelations of nursing professionals.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

We are in a period of great advancements in science, but men are still seeking to understand the process of death and dying. Death is a great scary mystery, it is seen as a taboo, a theme that we must no approach and considered a professional failure. Basead on the presupposition that the nursing professional is not well prepared to cope with patients tha are dying, the goals of this study were: to investigate how nursing professionals experience the process of death and dying of hospitalized children and adolescents, to verify where they find preparation and support to face this loss and to identify what kind of support they offer to the families during the process of death and dying of their child/adolescent. Due to the nature of the objectives proposed, this study is considered qualitative. Subjects were nuses, nursing auxiliaries and technicians who work in pediatric wards at a university hospital in the state of São Paulo, Brazil and who had experienced the process of death and dying of children/adolescents that were receiving the care provided by them. Empirical data were collected through interviews and were organized in there themes: facing death, support strategies and team mourning. Results indicated that nursing professionals deny death in the hospitals and believe that their function is to save lives; they offer affective and emotional support to families; they look for support mainly within the working team and family and they experience the mourning due to the death of their patients. Author concluded, based on these results that the nursing professionals need emotional and education support in order to cope with death in a more natural way and to assit the children and adolescents’ real necessities whwn they are dying. The author recommends the inclusion of the theme “death” in the curricula and also that hospitals must for permanent education as a strategy to promote changes in posture of the professionals that provide care to patients who are dying.

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criança hospitalizada nursing enfermagem hospitalized adolescent hospitalized child morte death adolescente hospitalizado

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