Estou diante da morte, o que faço agora? Vivências dos estudantes de enfermagem sobre a morte e morrer: uma revisão narrativa da literatura

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Death and dying is a difficult and challenging topic for professionals who deal every day with patients with different levels of illness and with a prognosis of imminent death, and as nursing is closely linked to care, the loss of a patient it can be faced with sadness, helplessness, frustration and fear. OBJECTIVE: To identify how nursing students behave in the face of death and dying during their training. To report how the academy has approached the end-of-life cycle with nursing students. METHODOLOGY: This is a narrative review of the literature, developed from publications on the way nursing students deal with death and dying during their training process. The research was carried out in a time frame from 2017 to 2022, the searches took place from February to April 2022. RESULTS: Approximately 50% of the studies reported that students enrolled from the third to the fifth year of the nursing course, have difficulties in dealing with the death of their patients during their academic training, seen as traumatic and shocking experiences. They report feeling anxious, unbalanced, shaken, insecure, guilty and powerless. The feeling of failure and failure is highlighted as a consequence of not being able to save the patient's life. Most of the HEIs and the pedagogical projects of the courses have not developed, in the training process, preparation or spaces for discussion among academics about the loss and death of patients under their care. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The dimension of human finitude is a difficult topic to be addressed, whether from a philosophical or scientific perspective. There are many challenges for academic training, however it is known that it will never meet all the required dimensions, HEIs need to train and qualify professionals who are increasingly prepared and aware of caring for life, as well as caring for others. request in the face of death.