SARMENTO, W. M.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2634948168829116; SARMENTO, Wagner Maciel.
Resumo:
Palliative Care aims to improve the life quality of patients and their families facing an incurable
disease, through early identification, evaluation and relief of pain and other biopsychosocial
and spiritual problems. Thus, the adequate professional qualification of the nurse is essential,
so that palliative care is provided in an appropriate and satisfactory way. The goal of this study
was to evaluate the nurses' perception about their professional qualification for the provision of
Palliative Care in Home Care. This is a field study of a descriptive nature and with a qualitative
approach carried out with 14 nurses working in primary health care in the urban area of the city
of Cajazeiras, paraíba, through a recorded interview guided by a semistructured form. Nursing
professionals working in the Primary Health Care of the said municipality for more than six
months were established as inclusion criterion, and, as exclusion criterion, professionals who
could not be contacted during the period of data collection, which occurred in the months from
march to april 2018. The objective data regarding the sociodemographic and professional
profile were analyzed quantitatively through the absolute and relative frequencies, arithmetic
mean, minimum and maximum values, and standard deviation; and arranged in tables using
Microsoft Excel 2013® software and the subjective ones in a categorical and thematic form
through Laurence Bardin's Content Analysis. The study respected the ethical precepts arranged
in the Resolution 466/2012 of the National Health Council, approved by the Ethics Committee
of the Federal University of Campina Grande/Teacher Training Center under opinion nº
2,434,724. Three thematic categories were built: Category 1 - Nurses' knowledge about
Palliative Care; Category 2 - Academic training and professional qualification of nurses for the
provision of Palliative Care in Home Care; Category 3 - Nurses' perception about their aid in
Palliative Care. It was verified that the nurses had a lacking knowledge about this subject,
because topics considered relevant to the Palliative Care were not mentioned or were little
approached by the interviewees. The expressive majority of the participants stated that they did
not have specific discipline on the subject in the institutions where they graduated, and none of
them participated in Permanent Health Education on the subject, whose situation reflects
negatively on the quality of care, which was fragmented and superficial, even being positively
assessed by the subjects participating in the research. Therefore, the need to approach nurses
with Palliative Care in their training process is evidenced, favoring the development of skills
necessary to provide good quality care.