title: [Hospitalized newborn infants: the parents' experience].
abstract: This paper investigates parents' experiences during their newborns' hospitalization. It is a qualitative study. It takes place at Neonatal Care Unit of a School Hospital in Porto Alegre. The research subjects are parents of newborns placed in this Unit. The analysis process generates three topics: "Perceiving the baby's hospitalization as something difficult to experience", "Living the necessity of getting support", and "Living disease in a hospital". The importance of this work consists of articulating the elements which are present in parents' experiences, making possible a continuous nursing care with family valorization, specially through listening and supporting.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: da Cunha
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D001938:Brazil; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D017283:Neonatal Nursing; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology