FEELINGS AROUSED IN THE FAMILIES OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS

Authors

  • Vanessa Maria Spohr
  • Hilda Maria Barbosa de Freitas
  • Silomar Ilha
  • Glaucia Dal Omo Nicola
  • Claudia Zamberlan
  • Maria Helena Gehlen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v18i4.34930

Keywords:

Family, Intensive Care Unit, Feelings, Nursing.

Abstract

This is exploratory, descriptive research with a qualitative character, undertaken with eight family members of persons hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of a medium-size hospital located in the central region of Rio Grande do Sul, in the period August – September 2010, which aimed to investigate the feelings aroused in family members in relation to the environment and the health professionals. The data, collected through semi-structured interviews, was analyzed using the method of content analysis, from which emerged the categories Impotence in the face of the family member’s hospitalization, Insecurity related to the closeness of death, Inflexibility of the health team regarding the family member, and Absence of dialog with the family members. The care for the family members is a need which must extend from professional development to the professionals’ routine work. Thus, it becomes possible to assist the family members in coping with the illness and adapting to the hospitalization, demystifying the association of this environment with the event of death.

Downloads

Published

2013-12-30

How to Cite

Spohr, V. M., Freitas, H. M. B. de, Ilha, S., Nicola, G. D. O., Zamberlan, C., & Gehlen, M. H. (2013). FEELINGS AROUSED IN THE FAMILIES OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED IN INTENSIVE CARE UNITS. Cogitare Enfermagem, 18(4). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v18i4.34930

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 4 (2013)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

License

Cogitare Enfermagem reserves the right to make normative, orthographic, and grammatical changes to the published article to maintain the cultured standard of the language, while respecting the authors' style.

The published study is the sole responsibility of the author(s), and Cogitare Enfermagem is exclusively responsible for evaluating the manuscript as a scientific publication vehicle. Revista Cogitare Enfermagem is not responsible for any violations of Law No. 9,610/1998, the Brazilian Copyright Law.

Cogitare Enfermagem allows the author to hold the copyright of articles accepted for publication, without restrictions.

The articles published are licensed under the Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 - The attribution adopted by Cogitare Enfermagem is permitted:

  • Share - copy and redistribute the material in any media or format.
  • Adapt - remix, transform and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
  • Attribution - You must give proper credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do this in any reasonable way, but not in a way that suggests that the licensor endorses it or approves of its use.
  • No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing something that the license allows.