Feelings of nurses faced with death: pleasure and suffering from the perspective of psychodynamics of Dejours.

Autor: Dos Santos JL; Universidade Estácio de Sá, Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil, janaina-luiza@hotmail.com., Corral-Mulato S; Departamento de Enfermagem Psiquiátrica e Ciências Humanas, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, smvbueno@eerp.usp.br., Villela Bueno SM; Departamento de Enfermagem Psiquiátrica e Ciências Humanas, Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, smvbueno@eerp.usp.br., do Carmo Cruz Robazzi ML; Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, avrmlccr@eerp.usp.br.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria [Invest Educ Enferm] 2016 Oct; Vol. 34 (3), pp. 511-517.
DOI: 10.17533/udea.iee.v34n3a10
Abstrakt: Objectives: To analyze the feelings of nurses confronting death, according to the Dejourian psychodynamic.
Methods: This is a qualitative, exploratory study, analyzed, interpreted and discussed emphasizing the suffering and pleasure, proposed by Dejours.
Results: Participants were 11 nurses, mostly woman, single, white, Catholic, between two sixteen years of profession. The analysis of responses allowed finding some driving and potentiating factors of feelings of pleasure and suffering. It was identified as pleasure: feeling of accomplishment, comfort and relief; as suffering, sadness, frustration, difficulty with grief, impotence and incapacity. They also have defense mechanisms to prevent suffering, as not to think about suffering and death, taking refuge in work.
Conclusions: The factors related to the pleasure and the pain of Nurses when facing death were identified. Therefore, education is necessary regarding the process of death in academic training and studies that approach the nurse to this natural process.
Competing Interests: The authors of this article and the planning committee members and staff have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.
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Databáze: MEDLINE