Death in the daily working routine of nursing professionals in an intensive care unit

Authors

  • Ligia Aparecida Palú
  • Liliana Maria Labronici
  • Leomar Albini

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v9i1.1703

Keywords:

Death, Nursing, Intensive Care.

Abstract

It is a qualitative research with a 

phenomenological-hermeneutic approach, which
objectified to apprehend the perception of death for
nursing professionals along their daily working
routine in an Intensive Care Unit in a University
Hospital. Nine (9) recorded interviews with a nursing
team were carried out between October and
November/ 2004. The interviews conformed to
Resolution N.196/96 of National Health Council on
research involving human beings. The analysis of the
accounts went through three steps: description,
reduction and phenomenological understanding. It
was pointed out that living surrounded by death can
bring about a multitude of feelings, such as:
compassion, guilt, detachment, denial, emotional
involvement/ empathy. It was evidenced that those
professionals perform their tasks surrounded by a
lot of emotion and inquiries as they have not been
prepared to cope with death but work with life.

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Palú, L. A., Labronici, L. M., & Albini, L. (2004). Death in the daily working routine of nursing professionals in an intensive care unit. Cogitare Enfermagem, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v9i1.1703

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2004)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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