title: The importance of communication in pediatric oncology palliative care: focus on Humanistic Nursing Theory.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to investigate and analyze communication in palliative care contexts from the perspective of nurses, based on Humanistic Nursing Theory.
  
  
  METHODS
  this is a field study with a qualitative approach, in which ten nurses working in the pediatric oncology unit of a Brazilian public hospital participated. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. The testimonies were qualitatively analyzed using Humanistic Nursing Theory and based on the five phases of Nursing Phenomenology.
  
  
  RESULTS
  two thematic categories emerged from the analysis of the study's empirical material: "strategy to humanize nursing care, with an emphasis on relieving the child's suffering" and "strategy to strengthen ties of trust established between nurse and child."
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  communication is an efficacious element in the care provided to the child with cancer and is extremely important to promoting palliative care when it is based on Humanistic Nursing Theory.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. jaelrubia@gmail.com.br
authors.forename: Jael Rúbia Figueiredo de Sá
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: França
authors.forename: Solange Fátima Geraldo
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.forename: Maria Emilia Limeira
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Lopes
authors.forename: Maria Miriam Lima
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: da Nóbrega
authors.forename: Inacia Sátiro Xavier
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: de França
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards*; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*