Humanizar os cuidados ao final de vida em unidades de cuidados intensivos: a morte pela perspectiva do profissional de saúde

Abstract

This study seeks to evaluate the perspective of the health professional, who integrates the service scale of intensive care units at the Hospital Naval Marcílio Dias, regarding death and to describe aspects related to their academic training and clinical practice in relation to this topic. Its objective is to identify possible gaps in the development of skills and competences for managing end-of-life care. This is a quantitative, cross-sectional and descriptive study, carried out through a free digital platform. The questionnaire was distributed electronically to health professionals in all intensive care units at Hospital Naval Marcílio Dias. Where descriptive analyzes of the data were carried out, with the objective of establishing proposals for action that contribute to the improvement of a more humanized training of health professionals and with it, to seek an improvement in the well-being of professionals and the quality of the process of dying at the Hospital Naval Marcílio Dias.