[Interdisciplinary relationships and humanization in intensive care units].
OBJECTIVE
To analyze those aspects of the relationship between the health care team of an ICU that may be decisive in the construction of humanized care.


METHODS



METHODS
phenomenology: descriptive and exploratory. ANALYSIS and observation unit: Polyvalent 23-bed adult ICU.


METHODS
nine extensive interviews.


METHODS
healthcare professionals in interaction in the ICU that is being studied.


METHODS
assigning of data to emergent categories. Contrasting with existing theories.


RESULTS
Identification of guideline values circumspect to the humanistic paradigm. The value of professional role is accepted as emergency factor of certain attitudes. All the professional groups detect lack of independence situations, which are not always attributable to hierarchical reasons. Systematic interdisciplinary communication is evaluated positively. Humanization requires time, resources, and intergroup relationships and explicit commitment by the institution.


CONCLUSIONS
Relief of great suffering situations is the main reason for interdisciplinary disagreement. Construction of a tolerant setting and institutional recognition as factors favoring humanized care. Lack of time and resources as obstacles to the humanization of care.
Rubio Rico
Lourdes
L
Diplomada en Enfermería, Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII, Departament d'Infermeria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. lourdes.rubio@urv.net
Cosi Marsans
Margarita
M
Martínez Márquez
Carmen
C
Miró Borrás
Adorabel
A
Sans Riba
Lluïsa
L
Toda Savall
Dolors
D
Velasco Blasco
Carmen
C
D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000458:organization & administration; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values; D013030:Spain