Cuidado de enfermería en la angustia ante la muerte: narrativa de enfermería

Abstract

A narrative of the nursing situation is shown as a methodological possibility for the disciplinary scientific development of nursing, as a science of care. The main reference for its development is the experience lived by a nurse at the patient ´s home, after attending a phone call. The care carried out there transcends an established contract and a psychophysical dimension. Comprehensive care is observed. This care addresses the concept of anguish experienced by the family and the patient, it is also possible to see in the same nurse who narrates it, an integrative and unitary vision of their care. Where their own care and interventions seek to face the phenomenon of death that is looming in the family environment, thus situating their own experience and thus painting a situation for nursing learning with this philosophical vision. In the end, reference is made to two scholars of the discipline, Jaqueline Fawcett and Barbara Carper, locating their concepts in the interaction of the ns