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The experience of nursing students facing death and dying
Aline Viana Sampaio1, Isabel Comassetto2, Ana Cristina Mancussi e Faro3
1Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas -UNCISAL-, Brazil.
Objective:
To understand the phenomenon experienced by nursing students in their academic practices in view of death and dying.
Methodology:
This was a qualitative study, based on Martin Heidegger' existential phenomenology, undertaken at a public University in Alagoas, Brazil, between August and October 2013. Seven senior students of nursing were interviewed.
Results:
The phenomenological analysis yielded the following existential themes: Facing death and dying in academic practice; Acknowledging impotence in the face of death; Glimpsing the possibility of solicitude; Interacting with the family in view of the loss; Experiencing spirituality in the face of dying.
Conclusion:
It is deduced that, during the academic education, the theme involving death and dying has been addressed insufficiently, without precisely attending to all the demands of the nursing students during care in the dying process.
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