<b>Interviewing the families of sick newborn babies as a proposal of</b> - DOI: 10.4025/actascihealthsci.v26i1.1646

Abstract

This paper is based on a study that searched ways to understand how to deal with the family who experienced the news of a sick newborn. The interview was performed in a hospital located in São Paulo, Brazil, in November of 2002 and it used the Calgary Model of Assessment and Intervention in Family (CMAF/CMIF)). This study showed the need for intervention with the family to minimize the impact of receiving the news of a sick newborn, and to provide support through a conversation for resolution of the problem. The function of the nurse is to try to perform a precocious work with the family, facing the difficult experience of having a special child. The intervention aims to help the family to solve the problem, listening to the verbal and not verbal communication, searching to understand the situation with the family.