O impacto dos sentimentos na atuação dos profissionais da enfermagem no cuidado e/ou relação de pacientes oncológicos terminais.

Abstract

The purpose of the research realized it is about terminality of the cancer patients and the professional nursing actuation in this context. From this situation appears a preoccupation about the terminality when it is not possible the cure of the disease. The concept is like a tabu for the patient, family and health professionals. However the professionals nursing present difficulty in the actuation with final cancer patients because of the feelings that appears in this contact. So the meaning of the research is to evidence the feelings that appears in the relation between nursing and cancer patients in final process and how this interfere on the nurses actuation that works in reference oncology hospitals in the region. The research is qualitative and the methodology used is semi structured interviews. In the total were interviewed six nurses that works day by day with final cancer patients. The interviews were recorded through authorization of the participants and after describe, were analyzed about the Laurence Bardin (2016) content analyzes. From the results gets were listed five categories to conduct the discussion of the dates, which are: “feelings that appears in the professional that works with final cancer patients”, “emotional support”, “professional posture in front of the terminality” and “modifications and influence in the personal life through final cancer patients living together”. This research provided to the nursing workers a reflection around the questions brought in relation to their work with the terminal cancer patients. I believe that from reflections like these I try to evidence of the importance of self-care.