O cuidar humanizado da equipe de enfermagem na UTI pediátrica: Sentidos e significados

Abstract

The pediatric ICU is a place that shows some important experiences for all those people involved in the reality of treatment and health reestablishment of the children hospitalized there. This paper addresses the issue through the phenomenological perspective, the perception of nurses about their own doing, in their being-in-world and the establishment of care as a form of occupation in your life. The present study is divided in two articles, being the first one in bibliographic approach and intended to present the theories that seek to understand the phenomenon of care in the pediatric ICU, contextualizing with the nursing profession with their biomedical prerogatives and humanized care. It is known that to be part of the nursing staff, it requires giving themselves to the other, to experience it in all the potential of the relationship. The second article, sought to comprehend the speeches of people who work in the nursing team and take care of through interviews with ten nurses, by the guiding question "Would you describe how is to care for a child hospitalized in a pediatric ICU ? ". It was used the phenomenological method of research in psychology and the analysis based on the theoretical assumptions of Martin Heidegger. The speeches led to the development of the following categories: Nursing at PICU - the experience of care; Experiencing the ICU: Contexts and Resizing the conception of ICU. The study of categories of analysis presented reflected that most speeches spoken about emotional care that would be implied in the technique, in the other words, care that does not despise the issues of construction of biomedical knowledge and existential constructions and involving caregivers and those which receive care. These professional's speeches are full of sense of humanized care, but also emphasize the need for psychological support to the development of psychological-existential issues arising from professional practice. This way it is possible to realize that emotional care is implied in the technique, a care that does not despise the existential questions and involving the caregiver and the one who receive this care.