Palliative care training: experience of medical and nursing students

Abstracts

The research remarks the importance of training professionals capable of handling the subjectivity required to palliative care. This is a qualitative study, with an exploratory and descriptive approach. It aims to explain and analyze the experience of undergraduate medical and nursing students in palliative care, identifying the challenges and understanding the formative requirements for this type of care. It was possible to identify five aspects that make up the experience: change in the perception about palliative care, identification with the patients and their family, rationalization and awareness process, palliative care training and practice learning and multidisciplinary work. The study shows the importance of practice activities in palliative care learning, the valorization of the multidisciplinary teams, the suffering involved in the process of self-identification with the end-of-life patient and the cycle of empathy and estrangement resulting in the emotional maturity needed in palliative care.

Teaching; Medical Education; Nursing Education; Palliative care; Attitude towards death