Impact assessment of an educational intervention in the field of thanatology in INNN

Abstract

Objective: to assess whether an educational intervention in the area of thanatology alter the perception of providers of health care in our institution. There is a general ignorance on the subject, so knowing that the Thanatology help the team to provide health care for a patient in a holistic manner, with warmth and quality, going beyond the purely medical and palliative care providing as much as possible a quality of life until the last moment which lead to a dignified death, with spiritual peace with itself and its environment. This introductory course to Thanatology stressed the importance of the area tanatológica an institution like this, most of which serves a population of patients with chronic, progressive, degenerative and incurable, given that the team is ready for his health professional to deal with death, but not when it is treated as inevitable as it is the number one enemy, and they are not sensitized and educated in order to treat the patient and family at this painful and inevitable process.