Percepções dos técnicos de enfermagem acerca da formação profissional, sobre a morte e o morrer

Abstract

Death: conflicting array that still interferes negatively in the rendering of the educational relationship and the act of professionalism in dealing with events involving death and dying. The objective of this study was to identify the perception of nursing technicians regarding the professional training concerning death and dying. This is a meta-synthesis for whichresearches were conducted in the following databases: LILACS, BDENF, SciELO, MEDLINE, REDALYC Bank of Theses and Dissertations USP, UNICAMP and UFMG. A total of 63 publications, including all repetitions, were identified and forty sever were selected, of which five were the sample, chosen due to the inclusion criteria identified: studiesrelated to the perception of nursing technicians, published in English, Portuguese, or Spanish from 1998 to 2013.The results revealed that nursing technicians are still not yet equipped to the handling of death in their everyday work. It is concluded that despite the insipience of thestudies yet published, the selected possess a low risk of bias, permitting that the results of this research provide subsidies for reflections, sensitization and betterment of the learning processwhich favors education about death and dying in the training of a nursing technician, permitting the discovery and practice of moral, ethical and bioethical values, as well as more humane ways in the provision of care, both in life and in death.