Abstract

BARBOSA, Larissa Horácio  and  CARVALHO, Isalena Santos. The perspective of residents about the death and its reflection in their relation with the patients. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.2, pp.107-128. ISSN 1516-0858.

Health care professionals may not receive adequate training on the issue of death. Based on that, this paper aims to discuss how the relationships of residents with patients without prospect of cure are and how to participate in the residency program reflects in the residents performance together with these patients. Empirical research guided by the psychoanalytic method was carried out through semi-structured interviews and participant observation with 8 residents of a universitary hospital. According to the statements, it is hard to be in front of patients without prospect of cure. In the graduation of healthcare professionals, the focus tends to be to promote the extension of life, the subject of death staying, thus, on the sidelines. In residency programs, the reflections about death occur mainly through the practice. There is a gap in the disciplines about the death. It is in their daily lives that residents are seeking to build a practice that goes from the feeling of powerlessness to promote the quality of life for patients without perspective of cure and care of their families during hospitalization and after his death.

Keywords : death; residency program; staff development.

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