Cuidados paliativos e teoria humanística na enfermagem

ABSTRACT: Aimed to reflect on the importance of the use of palliative care (PC) in the daily work of nursing staff in the light of humanistic theoretical approach of Paterson and Zderad. CP aims to provide the patient off the possibility of healing and life-threatening and your family a better quality of life. When the nursing workers in their care process, apply the Humanistic Theory in combination with therapeutic CP, you can identify each person as a unique and singular existence, allowing to understand their meaning and understand it during the progression of their disease. Enables also assist such workers to assist terminally ill patients in their process of finitude. Therefore, the biggest challenge is to mobilize, these professionals need to reflect on their practice, seeking compromise with the theme of the terminally ill and CP, both in their continuous training process, as the institutional management with the training of the same.