Temporality: existing and the perspective of finiteness for nursing students when experiencing death

Abstract

Phenomenological qualitative research that used Heidegger's hermeneutics, with the aim to understand the meaning of finiteness for nursing students when experiencing death. Data were collected between March and May of 2011, by means of interviews with eight nursing students from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The audio of the phenomenological interviews was recorded and later transcribed. Data were analyzed as per the stages of pre-understanding, understanding, and interpretation of what the participants said, and the following units of meaning emerged: Temporality and existence as a prerogative of the academic being, The experience of death: when a loved one passes away, and Disease as a possibility of being-toward-death. Nursing students view themselves to be temporarily inserted in the world and are aware that they are a being-toward-death when reflecting on death, and their constant return to fundamental questions of their being, configuring themselves as the basis of their entire interpretation about life and living.

Espiritualidade nos cuidados paliativos: experiência vivida de uma equipe interdisciplinar

“…Caring for patients in an end-of-life process needs to be given as much importance as the care given to help a patient recover from a heart attack, since death is a part of life. The provision of dignified care, meeting all the health needs of the patient and family, is a way in which palliative care professionals can develop a work process focused on dying well, i.e., with a minimum amount of suffering and without pain to the patient and family (15) .…”

Adaptación Del Modelo De Kristen Swanson Para El Cuidado De Enfermería en Adultas Mayores

“…The research was qualitative with a hermeneutic approach, based on Martin Heidegger, which consists of a process of pre-understanding, understanding and interpreting the phenomenon, not as something fragmented or sequential, but as something that reveals the phenomenon in movement. 6 The care model proposed in this study emerged through the adaptation of Kristen M. Swanson's Theory of Care to the health needs of the elderly woman, based on the assumption that the person being cared for is in the process of lost transitioning and requires follow upin their adaptation process. 7 It also emerges as an emergent intervention for the psychosocial conditions in which elderly women find themselves in Mexico, promoting autonomy and independence in self-care.…”

Muerte y morir en el hospital: una mirada social, espiritual y ética de los estudiantes

“…Because we had a patient for a long time, like two months, with an esophageal tumor, who never had an esophageal prosthesis or failing to have a gastrostomy to feed, and they took a long time to do the gastrostomy, as a month and a half, and they did it, for example, in fact they did it in my shift at about 9:00 in the morning and he died in the night shift at about 5 If in ethics we saw some cases, as of the ones I don't know, as clinical cases themselves, the whole process and the dignified death and the ethical things that one has to do with the patient. (10) And the family was really opposed to leaving LET (limitation of therapeutic effort), so it generated an ethical conflict between professionals and the decision that the family wanted to make.…”

“…It represents the temporary being that we all are, and our existence, as beings, is directly connected in this perspective. 5 The approach with the death of the other during the care process can generate concerns for the nursing professional because this contact can generate fear and anguish due to the awareness of the end and the fragility of life. Therefore, the nurse should try to deal with the feelings raised by this approach and everyone has to live or experience the sensation of seeing their patients die, in many cases, with few psychological tools, little institutional support and ignorance of techniques and therapeutic strategies of coping and self-help that they should have acquired during the nursing education process.…”

“…6 When the nursing student enters the field of hospital care in his academic training process, when witnessing the death of the other, he reflects on his own death and that of his loved ones, perceiving as finite and mortal. 5 Throughout the training process, the professional is trained to commit to the preservation of the patient's life, therefore, his academic education is directed by the care of the patient's cure, and this result is a sign of professional satisfaction, this characteristic reinforces how presence of death in general care routine feelings of lack of preparation and abstinence. 7 It is known that there are shortcomings in academic training in relation to the issue of death which leads to student insecurity in relation to the experiences of the death and death process.…”