Different ways of coping the death of nursing students and professionals
Padrón Acosta, L.
Revista de Enfermeria 37(1): 26-29
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0210-5020 PMID: 24624617 Document Number: 676790
To review bibliography for show, how to deal with the death of patients by nursing students in hospital practices, and, at the same time, to compare this reaction with nurses, and knowing differences and/or similarities. A study bibliography review. We performed a literature search in the databases: CUIDEN, CUIDATGE, LILACS, CINAHL, ENFISPO, PubMed, Science Direct from 2007 to 2012. The search focused on three concepts: "death", "nursing" and "attitude". Articles that are considered relevant, from which the corresponding analysis was performed. There were 84 documents, of which 16 were selected and analyzed papers. The results show the factors that influence the attitude towards death and show that as these facts are lived internally created coping mechanisms. Therefore, there is an evolution from the experience of the first deaths as a student and as a professional nurse successive. In most articles also shows a lack of training in this area both by universities and institutions.