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Permission for departing: spiritual nursing care in human finitude
Leoni Terezinha Zenevicz1, Júlia Valéria de Oliveira Vargas Bitencourt1, Marcela Martins Furlan de Léo1
1Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul. Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Objectives:
To reflect on teaching experience in the application of the spiritual nursing care called permission for departing.
Methods:
It is a methodological reflection and description of a subtle technology for spiritual nursing care called permission for departing.
Results:
the permission for departing is a spiritual care that allows for an intentional therapeutic relationship of trust and safety among the professional, patients, and the family, enabling the expression of feelings, beliefs, and religious or spiritual rites that help in death and dying situations.
Final Considerations:
a concept structured by words and attitudes reinforcing what is positive was coined, aiming at a consciousness state of peace and the promotion of dignity in the death and dying process, as well as for time for the patients, their families and the team to experience contemplation and parting.
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