Meaning of the death/dying process for entering nursing students

This is a qualitative study, based on Heidegger's existential phenomenology, with the purpose of revealing the meaning of death/dying for freshmen students of the nursing program. The study was developed in a public university in the northwest of Paraná, Brazil between August and October 2010,...

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Published in:Revista gaúcha de enfermagem 2013-03, Vol.34 (1), p.173
Main Authors: Benedetti, Gabriella Michel dos Santos, de Oliveira, Kézia, de Oliveira, William Tiago, Sales, Catarina Aparecida, Ferreira, Patrícia Chatalov
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Attitude of Health Personnel
Attitude to Death
Comprehension
Culture
Education, Nursing
Emotions
Existentialism
Humans
Narration
Nurse-Patient Relations
Professional-Family Relations
Qualitative Research
Religion
Students, Nursing - psychology
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Summary:This is a qualitative study, based on Heidegger's existential phenomenology, with the purpose of revealing the meaning of death/dying for freshmen students of the nursing program. The study was developed in a public university in the northwest of Paraná, Brazil between August and October 2010, and 33 entering students from a Nursing program were interviewed. The following existential themes emerged from the phenomenological analysis: "Understanding death as a difficult process to be understood"; "Understanding death as a natural process"; and "Perceiving death as a passage to another life". The present study allowed to understand that knowledge and death are entangled in the temporality and the historicity of every being, which requires a scientific, ethical and philosophical understanding of the death/dying phenomenon so that the scholar may prepare for the humanized care of the patient and his/her family.
ISSN:0102-6933