<b>Implanting technologies of care in the intensive care unit for patients and their relatives</b> - DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v8i2.8194

Abstract

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a place of high technological complexity that frequently provokes feelings such as anguish, insecurity and fear in the patients’ relatives. The purpose of this study was to analyze the contribution of implanting care technologies for patients admitted in the ICU and their relatives during a hospitalization process. This is a qualitative approach based on Travelbee's Interpersonal Relation Theory, carried out with relatives of patients admitted in the ICU of a University Hospital. From the analysis, the following categories were evidenced: Appreciating the interactions in the ICU; Preparing relatives for the visit; and Evaluating the care technologies. To implement care technologies from a proposal of relationship person to person represents the construction of a continuous and growing process of approach, dialogue and humanization of the atmosphere. That explains the ethical dimension of the use of care technologies, such as the nursing knowledge, which is justified for meeting the need of care for our clients, users and family, therefore, actions less verticalized, in a permanent reflection process, interpretation and construction.