Morte: o vivido da equipe de enfermagem cirúrgica

Abstract

Death is a challenge for all nursing professionals especially for those working in the field of surgery, as this situation is not as expected. This study aimed to understand the experience of death of the patient lived in a nursing professional in an industry cirúrgico.Utilizou qualitative approach to seeking the essence in the statements, seeking a rapprochement with Phenomenology, open interviews with ten professionals nursing, during the months from March to May 2011. The setting was the University Hospital of Juiz de Fora / MG. The comprehensive analysis unveiled the following units of meaning: Grief, loss and the feeling of defeat and powerlessness in the face of death is very present, a natural process as the end of suffering coupled with the feeling of accomplishment; belief and religiosity assist in living death. It is considered that despite all technological advances, this moment is present and thereafter, the nursing staff must be grounded scientifically and emotionally to be able to handle that lived so full of feelings