[Critical care nursing professionals' perceptions about the death of the newborn].
This study aims to describe the perceptions of nursing professionals and identify their feelings against the death of newborns in the intensive care unit (ICU). Qualitative research with phenomenological focus. Respondents were nurses and nursing technicians in a neonatal ICU, answering the following research question: How do you feel against the death of the newborn in the ICU where you work? Emerged the question, about this phenomenon, a variety of feelings such as loss, compassion, sadness, resulting in a sensitive world of experience of each one. The analysis has both theoretical contribution the authors dealing with the phenomenology, as scholars of the subject's death. From the understanding of the phenomenon studied, say to be the death of the newborn for nurses in an ICU experience a conflict of feelings, sometimes painful, for the complexity of issue.
Secretaria Estadual de Saúde do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN.
Laureana Cartaxo Salgado Pereira
LC
Silva
Cecília Nogueira
CN
Valença
Raimunda Medeiros
RM
Germano
D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003422:Critical Care; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017283:Neonatal Nursing