1. Cuidado de la familia al niño en una Unidad de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica.
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Oliveira Severo, Valéria, Marten Milbrath, Viviane, Stragliotto Bazzan, Jéssica, Lucia Freitag, Vera, Bartschi Gabatz, Ruth Irmgard, and Acosta Alves, Vanessa
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SERVICES for caregivers , *INTENSIVE care units , *RESEARCH , *FRIENDSHIP , *CHILD care , *RESEARCH methodology , *PEDIATRICS , *INTERVIEWING , *QUALITATIVE research , *BATHS , *COMMUNICATION , *THEMATIC analysis , *CONTENT analysis , *LOVE , *FAMILY relations , *HOSPITAL care of children , *CLOTHING & dress - Abstract
This study aimed to know the care provided by the family member to the child admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). This is a descriptive and exploratory research with a qualitative approach, developed in a PICU of a hospital in the south of Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil. Fifteen family caregivers participated. The collection took place between December 2017 and January 2018, through a semistructured interview that occurred after the approval of the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), under the opinion n 2,416,925. The data were interpreted according to the thematic content analysis. Two categories were elaborated: Care provided by family members within a PICU; Relationship established by the health team of the PICU with the family caregiver and the child. The family offers the child a care based on love, affection and warmth, exposed when performing actions such as changing diapers, assisting in bathing and dressing. Likewise, the care received by the family members by the health team proved to be important to facilitate the process of adaptation to the situation lived and the continuity of the care of the family member to the child. In this sense, it can be seen that health professionals, especially nursing, may be conducting a therapeutic listening in their daily care, with a view to effective communication in which both speak the same language, valuing the meanings and meanings attributed by the family to this experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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