title: [The daily routine of parents of children hospitalized with cancer: nursing challenges].
abstract: This study seeks to understand the daily lives of parents with hospitalized children in a unit of pediatric oncology and hematology at a general hospital. This is a qualitative research, in which 13 is family caregivers were interviewed. Three categories resulted from the thematic analysis: changes in daily family life; main feelings experienced by parents, diffculties in treatment and strategies used. It was concluded that each family is unique and has different organization dynamics towards the cancer experience, however, the nursing challenge is to articulate these differences and include them in the care process, thus facilitating the daily hospitalization routine.
authors: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. malulcd@yahoo.com.br
authors: Maria Lourdes Custódio
authors: ML
authors: de Duarte
authors: Lisiane Nunes
authors: LN
authors: Zanini
authors: Maria Noemia Birck
authors: MN
authors: Nedel
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D010290:Parents