Educational process in palliative care and the thought reform

Abstract

Artículo ligado a la investigación: Ensino educativo em cuidados paliativos e atuação do enfermeiro na terminalidade: um estudo de caso. How to cite this article:

Teaching palliative care in undergraduate nursing education

“…The theoretical exploration in the literature resulted in 17 publications (2,7,(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) . The studies were published between the years 2003 and 2017, with the largest volume of publications found in 2017 (2,(11)(12) , 2016 (7,(13)(14) , and 2013 (18)(19)(20) , with three studies in each year, which denotes the contemporaneity of the theme.…”

“…The theoretical exploration in the literature resulted in 17 publications (2,7,(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) . The studies were published between the years 2003 and 2017, with the largest volume of publications found in 2017 (2,(11)(12) , 2016 (7,(13)(14) , and 2013 (18)(19)(20) , with three studies in each year, which denotes the contemporaneity of the theme. Regarding the place of origin of the studies, it was observed that they were from several countries, with predominance of six articles from the United States of America (USA) (13,(15)(16)(17)20,25) , three from Brazil (2,7,12) , two from the United Kingdom (14,19) , two from India (11,22) , two from Canada (23)(24) , one from Argentina (21) and one from the Republic of Cyprus (18) .…”

“…publications, three were published in Portuguese (2,7,12) and 14, in English (13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25) . Regarding the participants of these studies, there were undergraduate students from other professions besides nursing students in eight studies (7,11,(13)(14)17,(21)(22)(23) ; eight studies were conducted only with undergraduate nursing students (12,(15)(16)(18)(19)(20)(24)(25) ; and, finally, one was conducted with graduate nurses and teachers (2) . All the researches were carried out in the context of nursing undergraduate training.…”

“…This scenario highlights the need for nursing academics and professionals to understand palliative care. It is known that professional development in this area has become indispensable, since nurses are professionals who care for people throughout their life cycle, in health and disease situations (2) . Moreover, assisting patients with serious and life-threatening illnesses requires a humanistic view of their needs and those of their families, self-control before challenges, and commitment to reach the goal of palliative care to promote quality of life and relief of symptoms in a comprehensive perspective (3) .…”

“…It is understood that it is important to intensify the stimulus to the theoretical and practical teaching of palliative care in higher education institutions, taking into account that the lack of curricular components generates emotional difficulties and feelings of unpreparedness or lack of learning with respect to palliative care (7) . Evidence shows that basic training in palliative care is enough to cause a positive impact on the understanding of the theme, on emotional processing, on the management of suffering, and on the care of patients in palliative care and their relatives (2,7) .…”