Experiences and feelings experienced by the nursing team in neonatal palliative care
Abstract
Objective: to describe the experiences and feelings attributed by the nursing team in the palliative care provided to newborns in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Method: descriptive, exploratory study with a qualitative approach, conducted with the nursing team of a neonatal intensive care unit in a federal hospital. The data collection took place through semi-structured interviews, transcribed in full and submitted to content analysis between the months of December 2023 and February 2024. Results: the sample consisted of nine nursing technicians and seven nurses. From the interviews, 72 units of meaning were extracted and grouped into three categories: Neonatal palliative care: understanding attributed by the nursing team; neonatal palliative care: lived experience of the nursing team; neonatal palliative care: feelings attributed by the neonatal nursing team. Final thoughts: the neonatal palliative care is experienced by the nursing team as an emotionally challenging process for emerging feelings of sadness, pain and anxiety before the finitude, but the empathy that allows these perceptions is also the motivational factor for a responsible and humanized care.
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