title: Coping strategies for oncology nurses in high complexity.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify the coping strategies of oncology services of nurses in highly complex hospital care before the person with cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  it is a qualitative research, with 18 nurses in inpatient oncology units and/or outpatient chemotherapy in two cities in southern Brazil, sampled by a snowball and carrying out semi-structured interviews. Data were submitted to thematic analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  three categories emerged that show strategies such as denial and resignation in care, for support in the health team and the plurality and multiplicity of perspectives on the care, including the patient and his family and the search for personal and professional improvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  coping strategies are expressed in the cultural understanding of what it means to have cancer or not and management of health institutions for nurses to work with satisfaction. The service in education is a major factor in the development of ethical competence.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
authors: Kely Regina
authors: KR
authors: da Luz
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
authors: Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira
authors: MA
authors: Vargas
authors: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, RS, Brasil.
authors: Edison Luiz Devos
authors: EL
authors: Barlem
authors: Unimed, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil.
authors: Pablo Henrique
authors: PH
authors: Schmitt
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
authors: Flávia Regina Souza
authors: FR
authors: Ramos
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.
authors: Betina Hörner Schlindwein
authors: BH
authors: Meirelles
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009859:Oncology Nursing; D036301:Qualitative Research