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Sobre o final da vida : experiência de estudantes de enfermagem
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dornelles, Carla Da Silveira |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | Nursing, as a profession, is concerned about the relief of suffering, the minimization of pain, the dignity before death, about aspects related to the human condition, way of life and taking care of each other and of themselves. Talking about the end of life and dealing with mourning are permanent themes in the media, social networks, groups of conversations among other social forums, which makes this subject relevant to a research issue. Attempts to minimize the anxieties, frustrations and fears of professionals and students taking care of people who are dying are numerous. Since life is permeated by discourses and knowledge, I was instigated to rethink the way I teach, as well as the way I face what causes discomfort for the students, regarding this issue. On the context of the end of life and the experiences of the students through education in nursing, I performed the following research question: How to start hospital practices taking care of patients at the end of their lives? Thereby, traced as an objective to know the experiences of undergraduate nursing students who started their hospital practices caring for patients at the end of their lives. The present research is qualitative and descriptive and, through the focus group technique, analyzed discourses of students of the Nursing Course who experienced the first hospital practice in the Center of Palliative Care of the Hospital of Clinics of Porto Alegre (HCPA). As a result from the analysis emerged the category named as “Learning to be a worker”, presented with two markers denominated: “even being there, it seems that I do not do anything” and “I realized” that characterize the process experienced by the students. From these markers, it was possible to reflect on the experience, self-experience, technologies, among other supportive concepts for the possibility of understanding the process of learning how to be a worker. Students have the impression that they do nothing, considering that historically nursing undertakes actions to "save lives" and not to help to die. It is possible to think that death triggers an absence of selfconfidence, weakness, shame, guilt, and even loss of identity with the profession. To discuss how students experience nursing care facing the end of life was not to confirm what is already said and written about the lack of preparation of the students. The aim was to demonstrate that independent of the knowledge about the end of life, each event of death will be different from the other, each person; each circumstance has singularity, individuality, both of himself and of the other. It is up to the professionals, students and teachers to know that the experience is a single event, that develops the self-technologies, that makes possible the theory of practice, allows the reflection on the technicality on the fragmentation of the care. Thus, caring will not be purely prescriptive, automatic/mechanical, aiming at the object, it will enable the subjectivity of human conditions and the uniqueness of oneself and the other. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/173168/001058689.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
