Face to face: Palliative Care Health Professionals and Grief
Palliative care, Mourning, Health professionals, Humanization, Care.
Palliative care is understood as a set of measures aimed at improving the quality of life of patients and their families who are faced with issues related to a disease that threatens existential continuity. In the meantime, mourning becomes one of the most important axes of the CP team, contemplating the patient and the family from the diagnosis of a disease without possibility of cure, to the very process of death and dying. About this look of care for suffering, one points to the forgetfulness of the professional's mourning. Thus, we ask ourselves how the health professional who works with CP deals with the death of his patients. Do they get involved? (Re) know a possible coup? Does it interfere with your practice of care? Therefore, this study aims to understand the place of mourning for health professionals who work with palliative care, especially before death, and the implications for humanized care. We conducted a qualitative research, with the participation of 6 health professionals working with patients in palliative care near death in the city of Natal / RN. The study was anchored in the Gadamerian Hermeneutics, and had as instruments the Narrative Interview with the use of projective scenes. In the dialogues with the narratives we arrive at the following chapters: 1) "Palliative Care: what is it for?", In which we take a walk through the history of this model of care until today, tapering into the concepts and meanings that our employees gave to palliation; 2) "CP Professionals and Death: Formation, Meaning and the Role of this Care", where we bring the historical path of the health professional in the face of contact with death, formation, the meanings given to the finitude and departure of his patients , followed by the reflection of the role they assume in this care; 3) "The Palliative Patient's Death Experience", approaching the senses of departure, the feelings before the experience in accompanying death, and the mechanisms of detachment from the end; 4) "In the middle of the road, is there a mourning?", Which discusses the process of the engagement of our collaborators, revealing unauthorized mourning, coping strategies and possible ways of caring for these actors. It is hoped to develop more sensitive forms of care, in addition to being able to legitimize the difficulties facing the recognition of mourning.