Training of nurses regarding Palliative Care in the State of Rio Grande do Norte
Palliative Care; Professional Training; Nursing; Higher Education Institutions; Teaching.
In Brazil, the increased life expectancy and the ageing population, associated to the high levels of degenerative chronic conditions, enhanced the demand for palliative care, essential to the people’s quality of life and their relatives in front of diseases that threaten their life. Therefore, the nurse must assist to the patient, on both, integral and sensitive ways, inside its physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions, acting as the bond between patient and family and the other team members, being the professional with the highest opportunity to accomplish the care practices. This study’s objective is to analyze the nurse’s formation in palliative care regarding the State of Rio Grande do Norte. It is about a descriptive-exploratory study, with a qualitative approach. The place of study will be the Higher Educations Institutions, public and private of Rio Grande do Norte, recognized by the Ministry of Education and Culture, on-site and active in 2018, and the participants, the coordinators of the graduation courses in nursing. A semi structured interview will be used, followed by instruments with topics and open questions, regarding palliative care during the nurse’s formation, in addition to the investigated institution’s characterization. The participants who have any conflict of interest will be excluded. Alongside the interviews, the research will count with a documentary source, as far as the Pedagogical Projects and the courses’ curricular matrix are going to be analyzed. The analysis of the data to be used will be the thematic content analysis of Bardin, adapted by the author Minayo. The project will be submitted to the Committee of Ethic in Research from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and will obey the Ethical fundaments of the Resolution nº466/2012 of the National Health Council that is responsible of regulating, in national scope, researches involving human beings. It is expected that the achieved results may contribute to the formation of nursing professionals, given theme’s importance in the health professional’s current formation, considering the population’s epidemiologic profile to chronic and degenerative diseases, and the growing need of palliative care, that reveals itself as a challenge to the nurses as it is a new paradigm of care.