Abstract

GUEDES FONTOURA, Elaine  and  OLIVEIRA SANTA ROSA, Darci De. Experience of the care of nurses to the person in the process of death. Index Enferm [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.1-2, pp.25-29. ISSN 1699-5988.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S1132-12962013000100006.

The objective of this study is to understand how nurses experience the care of the person in the process of death and dying. Method: Phenomenological study with fourteen nurses of the unit of long-stay patients and of the medical clinic of a general hospital, through phenomenological interview, after approval by the Ethics in Research Committee, Protocol No. 031/2010. The phenomenological analysis went through the steps of description, reduction and understanding. Results: It was unveiled the suffering in face of death in the daily work, death as a remarkable experience and the existential void in face of death. Conclusion: The nurses unveiled in their testimonies anxiety, fear and death as a remarkable experience that makes nurses reveal the difficult acceptance and existential vacuum.

Keywords : Nursing care; Death; Qualitative research; Nursing.