A ESPIRITUALIDADE NO CUIDADO EM SAÚDE: PERCEPÇÃO DE ESTUDANTES DE ENFERMAGEM

Abstract

This study aims to present an analysis of the role of spirituality plays in people's lives, by influencing their beliefs, values and ways of coping, above all when they are in a borderline situation facing the basic clinical dichotomy of health-disease, origin of the question of how nursing students perceive about spirituality in health care. It was based on the pioneering work of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) in nursing, who at the time dealt with the dilemmas presented mainly by three of the most representative instances of knowledge: religion (care), science (clinical) and philosophy (ethics).The study was therefore divided into three chapters: a brief overview of the profession in view of the transition from its priestly to scientific origins; the interfaces between spirituality (religion) and philosophy and the return to the former; a case study with its subsequent discussion and conclusion. To this end, an exploratory and descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, was carried out simultaneously with the bibliographical research at the Aracruz Integrated College (FAACZ), in Aracruz-ES, with some of the undergraduate nursing students, using a questionnaire about their religious experiences. All with a view to verifying the relevance of this work in the belief that, despite the broad scope of religion in our society, there is still a lot to be discussed so that spirituality, as a whole, achieves greater uniformity within the religious institutions themselves, as well as within educational institutions, and that, in turn, the other areas of knowledge are highlighted as also decisive in the fight against misinformation, given the various prejudices common to the environment.