Abstract Background: Children are submitted to various procedures during hospitalization and in some situations, they are not allowed to take part on them. Aim: to understand children’s experience of autonomy during therapeutic procedures. Method: It was conducted in a public teaching hospital in São Paulo. Data were carried out by observation and semi-structured interviews with nine children. Results: the qualitative content analysis allowed the comprehension of children’s experience of autonomy, revealing that the right of autonomy is poorly contemplated, so […]

Abstract The purposes of this study are to understand the dynamics of the families of pediatric transplant recipients and to identify the needs and resources of the family. We will use as a theoretical reference the Symbolic Interactionism, and the Grounded Theory methodology. The comparative analysis of the data will allow the understanding of the meaning of the family’s experience, based on which we will propose a theoretical model to explain the experience.

Abstract This qualitative study with descriptive approach had an objective to identify a vision of sutdent nurses about playing as a way of taking care children with HIV/AIDS in hospital stay situation; to describe a playing strategies adopted by them in caring for those smalls clients; to discuss repercussions of using play by them in their background and how to learn about effective children interaction. Student nurses of 7th and 8th periods from one public federal university, Rio de Janeiro, […]

Abstract This study, planned to know all the questions concerning the nurses experiences about death in pediatrics, had as a focus to identify all the knowledge available related to the nurse’s dealing during the process of a child’s death and to analyze the evidences of the approaching process of a nursing towards a child and his family in this context. To develop this work we did an exploratory study through a bibliography research besed on data “Lilacs” and “Medline”. The […]

Abstract The clinical situation with a bad prognostic verification produces a load of reactions and varied feelings that influence the whole infirmary. This is a descriptive exploratory study based on quantitative approach, whose goal is to describe the nursing professionals’ perception about their performance with the child and the mother/attendant after a bad prognostic verification. After the analyses, three categories emerged: The feelings ahead of the “bad prognostic” propitiating the crisis; Taking care of the child with bad prognostic and; […]

Abstract This study handled the children’s imaginary about hospitalization by aiming at identifying the child’s image of his/her hospital slay and discussing the nursing role in avoiding the sequels hospitalization related to child’s life. The qualitative approach was developed in accordance with a descriptive method, in a pediatric publica hospital with nine children among 4 through 12 years. The content analysis conducted us to three categories: a hospital as home, its real structure and which belongs to personal world of […]

Abstract This paper consists in a literature review about glomerular diseases during the childhood and approach through the family nursing, considering the chronical aspects of this disease with the purpose of updating and reflecting about this theme and Its art state. They comprised: the glomerular diseases in childhood; the epidemiology of glomerular diseases; the glomerular diseases as a health chronic condition during the childhood and the nursing contributions to health chronic conditions and families. The literature demonstrated that knowledge is […]

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Abstract Study carried out by students in Nursing’s graduate of the University of Rio de Janeiro while developed an internalship in a Public Hospital of Rio de Janeiro. It has like as an objective to show the importance of the knowledge concerning to warmth to be made by the staff of nursing for children in a Post-Anesthetic Recovery (PAR), like way to announce. It was used a qualitative methodological approach to handle a study that include the perception about some […]