Abstract It is about a qualitative research with the objective to catch how the nursing and family caring in the assistance to the hospitalized child is outlined. Its objective is to understand how it has been conducted in real practice the involving of the family in this caring dimension. The field research was held through a semi-structured interview with the nursing staff of a school hospital. The analysis of the empirical material was submitted to an ordering, classification and the […]

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 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 Violence is a well recognized public health problem. In this context, the present condition of children’s and adolescent health is requiring a thoughtful consideration and positioning of health professionals and especially pediatric nurses. This paper’s objectives were (a) to report a reflection activity on violence and its implications for pediatric nurses, and (b) to update a discussion on violence, its relationship with health and its prevention. The impact of the terrorists’ attacks of September 2001 was discussed with undergraduate […]

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 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 […]