A morte e o processo de morrer de crianças em terapia intensiva pediátrica: vivência do enfermeiro

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Daniele Resende Silva Haddad
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Terapia intensiva; Morte de crianças; Enfermagem; Morte súbita; Criança hospitalizada; Enfermeiras/psicologia; Unidades de terapia intensiva pediátrica; Relações profissional-família; Relações enfermeiro-paciente; Existencialismo; Pesquisa qualitativa; Adolescente; Morte; Atitude frente a morte; Lactente; Pré-escolar; Criança
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/GCPA-6VZQAP

This study started from my restlessness in relation to the death of children hospitalized in an intensive care unit in which I worked as a nurse. I didnt feel comfortable in the face of the death process and of the dying of children. Because of this I asked the other nurses thatworked with intensive care if they also felt something different in front of this kind of situation. Thus, in this study, my goal is to understand the experience of the intensive care nurse in relation to the death process and the dying of children, The phenomenology, as modality of qualitative research, made it possible for me the understanding of the nurseexperience from the interviews made with eight nurses, that reported in a very active way their experiences from a direct question: What is the experience of the intensive care nurse like in the face of the death process and the dying of the child? I searched the descriptionsfollowing the steps of the phenomenology and I got to nine meaning units. I interpreted from the sociological phenomenological referential of Alfred Schütz. The speech of the nurses show that they always fight to combat the death and they feel impotent when they face thedeath of children; they refuse to accept the unexpected death and get involved, as well as suffer, with a childs death; in some cases, a childs death brings relief if his or her state is very serious and it is causing too much suffering; They (the nurses) suffer along with theparents the pain caused by the loss of a child; they get more sensitized after they become mothers. Besides they build an armor to continue working in a place where death is an almost habitual phenomenon. Thus, in this work, I show that the nurses are beings that keepan intersubjectivity relation with the children and with their parents and follow in a very close way the pain and the suffering of these people and try to create barriers aiming less suffering in the development of their activities.