Communication in death imminence: perceptions and strategy adopted for humanizing care in nursing

The dying process: its manifestation in nursing records

“…This is not visible in the data of the present study, concerning the focus on Rationale for Action, on Self-knowledge (99.8%) in particular, showing a total disregard for emotions, which have only 22 entries. Although there are several studies about nurses' experiences with the terminal patient (Brito et al, 2014;Lacerda et al, 2016;Lindolpho et al, 2016), this study adds a supporting analysis of the type of records kept during the dying process.…”

Práticas não convencionais em saúde por familiares e vínculos afetivos de pacientes críticos Unconventional health practices by family and affective bonds of critic patients

“…The communicator respects the public as a rational being able to analyze, criticize and evaluate the transmitted message, instead of accepting it passively. 32 As it is a line of knowledge and care extremely multiple and distinct, able to articulate a large growing number of therapeutic methods, light technologies, eastern philosophies and religious practices, a knowledge and a special attention is required of the health team. 33 The role of the nurse is featured within this context, taking in consideration that it has a mission as an educator, a communicating agent and a propagator of the appropriate forms of use of non-conventional health practices.…”

Death education: sensibility for caregiving

“…Living experiences through the method reported here strengthens the group because the members are more familiar with each other, their pains, difficulties, and thus, they respect each other more, a benefit highlighted by the students at the end of the activity. Being alongside classmates does not always mean being together, but when there is opportunity to experience moments in which the difficulties and anxieties are raised and discussed together, the frailties of human beings emerge, and they are joined by possibilities of sharing strategies for their resilience, which contributes so that humanization of care can express itself through communication (14) . In this sense, the communication -base for human interaction -enables the exchange of information and extends the possibilities for mutual understanding (15) ; thus, the exercise of dialogue with colleagues in class on a mobilizing topic, which involves the senses of human existence, is a potential element to think about people under an existential perspective and the defense of life.…”