Elaboração de um recurso educacional para profissionais de saúde voltado para os cuidados paliativos

Abstract

In recent years, creation of public policies, advancement of medicine, associated with incorporation of new technologies, use of increasingly effective treatments, in addition to the development of various pediatric subspecialties, combined with proliferation of pediatric and neonatal intensive care units , contributed to change the epidemiological profile of the population, with an increase in chronic diseases, a reduction in infant mortality and a decline in acute conditions. In this context, a new approach to care emerges, aimed at assisting patients with diseases that cannot be cured through a new therapeutic concept: Palliative Care. In view of this, the present work aims to develop an educational resource on Palliative Care aimed at professionals and students in the health area and also at civil society, through the Virtual Learning Environment of the Unified Health System. It is an action-research with a qualitative approach, which is characterized by identifying and solving collective problems, through investigation based on a self-reflection of actors and researchers involved. The research was built in two stages: knowledge analysis of nursing professionals about Palliative Care aimed at hospitalized children with chronic conditions carried out in 2020 and elaboration of a pedagogical design on Palliative Care for health professionals, through the creation of a free course on the AVASUS platform. It was observed that the professionals did not understand the philosophy and objectives of Palliative Care, showing a gap in training of professionals and emotional fragility in the face of death process. In this way, the product of this project aims to improve practices adopted in care, in order to instruct for Palliative Care, as well as to generate improvements in the quality of care as it may bring subsidies to support the planning of its actions and enrichment scientific.