Advance directives: perception of palliative care nurses
International Journal of Development Research
Advance directives: perception of palliative care nurses
Received 17th July, 2019; Received in revised form 26th August, 2019; Accepted 11th September, 2019; Published online 23rd October, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Milene Mendes Lobato et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Introduction: A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study carried out in two public oncology hospitals in the Brazilian northeast. Objective: to understand the perceptions of nurses working in palliative care about the advance directives of the terminal patient. Methodology: the data were obtained by open unstructured interview with 10 nurses and supported in Content Analysis. Results: two themes were constructed in which Nurses' knowledge about the anticipated directives of will and meanings for nurses about the implementation of the anticipated directives in the hospital scope. Conclusion: It will be necessary to create educational projects, especially for professionals who work directly with palliation, so that there is dissemination about this possibility of care for patients and families, making these subjects active and knowledgeable about their fundamental rights and guarantees.
