<b>Nursing care to families of children hospitalized with cronic disease</b> - doi: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v11i3.20260

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the nursing care to families of hospitalized children with chronic condition. An exploratory and descriptive research, with qualitative approach, was developed in a public hospital in João Pessoa, PB, with nine families from August to October 2010 through semi-structured interviews. For the empirical analysis we used the technique of the Discourse of Collective Subject. It was possible to identify two main ideas: the care they receive from the nursing staff during their stay in hospital has been through counseling, dialogue and listening; the importance for the families to have their children taken care of. The Discourse of the Collective Subject showed that some elements are present in nursing care to families, such as dialogue, counseling and listening, in which they were considered relevant to strengthen the most vulnerable people. However, families have a strong socio-cultural dimension in which their demands are relegated in favor of their children. Nurses should be sensitive to realize that the children’s relatives with chronic diseases, even if they do not expand their need for care, they are internally clamoring to be addressed in their psychological, social and biological aspects.