Strategies to improve self-help in student nurses when faced with death situations
Section: LEARNING TO TEACH
Authors
1Gabriel J. Estévez Guerra, 2Carmen Delia Marrero Medina
Position
1Enfermero. Máster en Enfermería Psiquiátrica y Salud Mental. Profesor colaborador de Ciencias Psicosociales.2Enfermera. Especialista en Enfermería Psiquiátrica. Departamento de Ciencias Clínicas. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Contact address
C/Blasco Ibáñez, 7. 35509 Tahiche, Lanzarote.
Contact email: gestevez@denf.ulpgc.es
Abstract
Our paper analyses those attitudes that make self-help a difficult process in the final stages of life. We will be performing essentially a review of the individual position each person has in relation to this topic. The approach used is based on workshop sessions (partially lived situations), that facilitates self-knowledge of the nursing student and that will enable him or her to improve and acquire new resources to deal with the death processes of third parties (the patients).
It is worth pointing out that despite the personal views that might well arise with regard to death, a great many of the students start to abandon defensive points of view as the workshops progress, learning how to cope and manage their fears.
In conclusion, we believe that the experience was an enriching one both for the students and for the teachers, as through this learning process, many of the doubts and fears came to light and were resolved. In the same manner, the workshops have represented a step forward for nursing students to leave their fears behinds and to continue searching in their soul for those barriers that make their interaction with other difficult, by facing and working at them.
Keywords:
help relationship; death; self-knowledge; nursingattitudes
Versión en Español
Título:
Estrategias para mejorar la capacidad de ayuda ante la muerte en alumnos de Enfermería
