RELIGIÃO E ENFERMAGEM: RECUPERAÇÃO E APOIO AOS PACIENTES HIV/AIDS ASSISTIDOS PELA ENFERMAGEM

Abstract

It is intended through this study, analyze the spirituality of greatness as a people coping strategy in the face of HIV positive diagnosis for HIV / AIDS. This research conclusion of expertise in the strict sense level was a synthesis of bibliographic research and research in specific group; including the measurement of the importance of religiosity of the individual infected by the virus, as well as the nursing staff with which it relates. It was noticed that, even today, some diseases bring people anxieties, fears and prejudices. In contemporary times the Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), brings to HIV positive imminent idea of death. Such thinking eventually leads the individual weights on his life, his career and his development as a person. From such a situation, the religiosity of infected should be valued and respected by the nursing staff and, provided there is no intention to override a religious following should even be encouraged such feeling - within feasible limits - providing, that way, an encouragement to face the situation. In literature there is a high influence of Catholics and evangelicals within the context of health and disease, which, consequently, are of influence on the lives of people with HIV. The positive diagnosis of HIV / AIDS, for an individual, is present in feelings that produce surprise and psychic pain, and can lead you to isolation because feels marginalized and discriminated against, making it difficult to live with people. Faced with the question of the outcome thereafter, and because of this mix of feelings involving seropositive patient is no need for an interdisciplinary monitoring and not only with the AIDS patient, but also with their families in order to build other values for the patient's life and even possibilities to make them feel participants in the process of overcoming the disease. With the religious focus, it is clear that the disease may not necessarily mean death, but another form of life; such as: coping, empowerment and strengthening of that individual, and thus provide a learning how to live with the disease, pointing out ways to redeem the respect and dignity, decimating thus the stigma attached to the situation you are in. This awareness ends for providing the virus carriers are not seen as abnormal individuals, freaks of nature and / or behavior.