title: [Reactions and feelings of the nursing professional towards death].
abstract: Through this paper which self explanatory and description we attempted to understand the reaction and feelings of nurses facing patients who are out of therapeutic possibility. W conducted individual, semi guided interviews with nine nurses from a general hospital in Maringá-PR about their reactions and feelings regarding forthcoming death on a daily base can be an extremely painful experience, therefore, they normally use self defense mechanics such as denial and reasoning death in order to live with daily losses. As a result these professional nurses may fail to notice the limits and their anxiety thus preventing them from providing a good quality of work in assisting their patients. Based on this fact we would like to suggest a prearranged space at the hospital where these health professionals could meet to share, reflect upon and express their anxieties, their fears, their helplessness and pain in face of death, enabling them to be better prepared for their daily losses.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM).
authors.forename: E L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: de Godoy
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*