Experiencias del profesional de enfermería frente a la muerte en pacientes hospitalizados revisión narrativa.

Abstract

Experiencing death and the fear of facing it, as time goes by, becomes one of the greatest challenges for nurses, who in turn provide the holistic care of the patient and family, involved in the suffering and fears that may arise. The present study aims to synthesize findings reported in scientific research on the experiences of the nursing professional in the face of death in hospitalized patients. The methodology was based on a literary review Narrative articles focused on the experience of nurses in the face of death; scientific articles with a qualitative or quantitative design of a descriptive type, consulted in primary sources such as Medline, Scielo, Science Direct, Pud Med, Lilacs. These belong to English, Spanish and Portuguese languages between 2008 and 2018. In the selection process, the articles were divided into 3 categories, which belong to 1. Category Process and perception of the professional, 2. category of Coping, manifested by emotions and feelings, and finally category 3 Experience and strategies that the professional implements in the face of the death process. Based on the previous categories, results are obtained that reveal that the professionals know the death process according to their customs and beliefs, but in most professionals it is traumatic to face this type of situation with which they usually manifest feelings of sadness, impotence, anguish, and concern, among others.