Abstract Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a chronic disease with rigorous treatment and limited survival. Purpose of the study is to know the history of the family of the patient with CF who died. It is descriptive exploratory qualitative research. We interviewed four families. Analysis was by transcription and organization of reports; readings of the interviews, signaling the central ideas and identification of categories; and interpretation of information and cross between these and literature. Project was approved by the Ethics Committee […]

Abstract The aims of the study were to identify nurse’s feeling toward child out of therapeutic possibilities and relate his/her role to the child’s family. Death is always an inexplicable loss and several times misunderstood by many people. The qualitative interview was developed with six nurses who work in the following settings: Infant Oncology Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Content Analysis was applied to the data, and results revealed that the most common professional’s feelings toward diagnosis were […]

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 purposes of this study are to: understand the family’s experience with a child admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) when must decide for an organ donation, identify the meanings that the family attribute to this experience and to construct a theoretical model about the experience of a family with a child in the PICU that must decide for an organ donation. The study used as a theoretical reference the Symbolic Interactionism, and the Grounded theory methodology. […]

Abstract Study with qualitative approach, which subject are the feelings of women who delivered stillboms or a dead newborns sharing the same room with another women that are in expectation their babies. The objectives intend to: verify what women who had been forwarded to the pre-laboring board after delivering a stillborn or having dead newborn think, analysis these thoughts and discuss the implications of making women who delivered a stillborn or had dead newborns share the same room as women […]