Abstract This reflexive study refers to nursing care as a straight act of providing care to client, and has an objective of showing it as a basis for nursing procedures, an alternative proposal coming from process of caring that change such procedures, as well as the conception of set and/or tools applied to care nurse would seen as technologies. Technology is considered a study of techniques; the set of terms related to science; a study of tools and factory methods […]

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 is related to rooming-in system, including its historical trajectory, as well as its advantages and difficulties regarding its implantation and implementation in health care facilities. It views the activities developed by nurse in that system, emphasizing the education given to mothers about caring for their children as well as their own self care, and also suggest the extension of educational process to home setting. In this meaning, we shows a goals of system may be effectively reached. […]

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. […]