Trabalho, luto e morte: uma análise do currículo do Curso Técnico Subsequente em Enfermagem do IFBA Campus Eunápolis

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted the illness of healthcare professionals, revealing a lack of comprehensive human training for dealing with death. This has become a fundamental element of this research, bringing with it the need to rethink death and dying in the training process of healthcare professionals from an intercultural perspective. Therefore, this study analyzes and proposes future recommendations for future reformulations of the curriculum of the Subsequent Nursing Technician program at the Federal Institute of Bahia, Eunápolis Campus. This study addresses the broader technical, professional, and intercultural training of students and faculty, with regard to studies on death and dying in the curricula of courses focused on Professional and Technological Education (EPT). The methodology chosen for this study was exploratory, qualitative research linked to bibliographical and social research. We used narrative interviews with students, alumni, and faculty of the Nursing Graduate Program as data collection and generation methods, as well as analysis of the program's Pedagogical Project. The central objective of the research addressed the need for intercultural, egalitarian, and comprehensive education on grief, death, and dying for healthcare professionals, considering the diverse cultural methodologies, religious beliefs, and actions aimed at the professional and social development of nursing faculty and students, thus providing a humanized and comprehensive education for the subjects. To achieve this objective, interviews were conducted to understand the perspectives of faculty and students on the topics under discussion, thus seeking data within the program itself regarding its curriculum and cultural approach and perspective on death. The Educational Product (EP) of this research was the development of an open MOOC course proposal for continuing pedagogical and intercultural training, entitled "Education and Work for Death and Mourning in EPT Training," on the IFBA Moodle Platform. This Educational Product is a way to reflect on the reductionist and biomedical training of students and provide theoretical and practical support for teachers who work in the internship field and experience the process of dying in their daily work. Thus, we believe that understanding the ritualistic processes surrounding death, analyzing the theme with a theoretical basis and within the field of cultural perceptions, with a methodological and pragmatic character, is fundamental for the construction of a curriculum that contemplates omnilateral, intercultural and counter-hegemonic training, enabling the creation of more comprehensive and fruitful understandings in relation to our being in the world and our finitude, allowing students and teachers to have broader meanings about the phenomenon of death, mourning and training with an emancipatory focus.