title: [Expression of sexuality of the hospitalized patient and the nurses' strategy in care].
abstract: Nursing is the science and the art of caring of the human being and it has to consider that this human being, in an integrated way, has psychological, social, biological and spiritual needs. We understand sexuality as an important dimension of the human being which requires attention considering a holistic assistance. From these principles, we have attempted to research next to a Rio de Janeiro city school hospital nurses, how these professionals deal with the sexual body and the hospitalized client sexuality expression in the context of the daily care provided for him. We have performed 10 non-structured interviews and proceeded to the analysis of their speeches contents. The analysis showed that the nurses when providing direct care to clients, regarding his sexuality, they experience difficulties that must be overdrawn so they can perform care. During the results follow-up, the nurses refer to make use of 'strategies' that hide the client's sexuality expression and demonstrate to be fully unprepared to deal with such situations. Such 'strategies' show that in the disciplined hospital space, there is no overture for the understanding of a body with historical, social and cultural scars; there is no room to deal with questions which take to emotion and human subjectiveness realms. We do believe that there is a need of treating the hospitalized client sexuality in critical and contextualized discussions linked to social and cultural fields. These discussions must be done both in care praxis to client and professional degree.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental da EEAN/UFRJ.
authors.forename: M de A
authors.initials: Mde A
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: de Figueiredo
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001938:Brazil; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011361:Professional Competence; D019529:Sexuality