<b>Teaching of palliative care in a nursing graduate program: students view</b> - DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v8i0.9717

Abstract

This study search to understand the view of the graduate students concerning palliative care. It is a qualitative research based in the existential phenomenology, accomplished in a public University of the Northwest of the State of Paraná, through interview with seven graduate students enrolled in the discipline in the second quarter of 2007. The guiding question was: “What did it mean to you taking a discipline of palliative care in the Master’s degree program?". From the analysis of the units of senses, three existential themes emerged which were interpreted from some ideas of Martin Heidegger, articulated with some principles of palliative care: arousing interest for a humanized care to the patient and family; the nurse's role in the human finality; building an authentic understanding in the encounter with the other. For the graduate students, the ethical, philosophical and scientific principles of the palliative care are important in the construction of an authentic understanding of the patient in his/her finality.