Percepção dos profissionais de enfermagem sobre a morte e o morrer na emergência hospitalar.

Abstract

This study aimed to present the perception of nursing professionals about death and dying in the emergency room as a means of subsidizing the understanding and the understanding of this phenomenon, which is integral and essential part of being. This is a quantitative and qualitative study where data were obtained through a structured semi-structured interviews with six nurses and five nursing technicians working in hospital emergency. W e used the methodology of the Collective Subject Discourse to analyze the qualitative data. The results show that nursing professionals have a perception of death as a natural process of life, but not so easy to be accepted and not worked in the emergency, in view of the difficulties they encounter in dealing with this situation.Before these, some strategies are used in an attempt to minimize the awareness and practice by confronting death, in order to offer the patient, family and staff a humanized and focused on the need to understand the phenomenon of life and death without fear and without distortion.