Material educativo digital sobre morte e morrer: círculos de cultura virtual na graduação em Enfermagem

Abstract

Introduction: Preparing undergraduate nursing students for the process of death and dying can contribute to providing sensitive care regarding sociocultural, physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects. Objective: To build a digital educational material related to competences to deal with care in the process of dying and dying. Method: this is action research conducted in a closed group on Facebook® designed into Virtual Culture Circles and based on the problematization in Paulo Freire’s underpinning in order to promote the development of a prototype of digital educational material focusing on skills to care at the end of life. We adopted thematic content analysis in the records of interactions between participants in the virtual environment. Results: Two categories emerged called "The Complexity of Care in the Process of Dying and Dying" and "The Personal Coping Related to Caring for the End of Life" for the elaboration of a web page entitled "First Steps in Dealing with the Death and Dying process". Conclusion: We evinced a Web page collaborative construction for the essential development of death and dying competencies.