O SIGNIFICADO DE CUIDAR NA UNIDADE DE TERAPIA INTENSIVA PEDIÁTRICA.

Abstract

The Pediatric Intensive Therapy Unit of is characterized as highly technological environment with specialized professionals. It is permeated by feelings of loss, anguish and at the same hopes on the expectation of stability and recovery of a child. The nursing team sets a team that plans, implements and develops the process of caring basead on healthpublic policies. To assure a critical pediatric patient and its family a humanized, integrated and systematic care with quality in its entirety is a matter to be questioned along with the understanding of nursing about the meaning of child caring into a critical unit. Therefore, it was chosen to develop a qualitative case study in which the target was to comprehend the meaning of taking care at the PITU from the nursing components perspective team. Six nursing assistants, six nursing technician and two nurses participated. The data collection happened from December of 2010 to August of 2011 through semi structured interviews and participant observation held on a private place inside its own health institution. Through the study and interpretation of data, it is noted that the attributed feelings from the participants in the meaning of caring in the Pediatric Intensive Therapy Units is associated with the dimensions techniques of humanization, the pressure and the love for caring. The participants mentioned that caring is composed by assistance activities concerning the eating, the hygienization, the medication, the elimination and the ventilator support. It was also added that characteristics of humanization emerges strongly in the sense of giving warmth, affection and to dialogue. They shower love for what they do, and the fulfillment to work with critical children and families, in addition to personal accomplishment, recalling the existence of the old nursing. Team work and the concern of taking care of who also takes, was identified as well, just like therecognition fo the family by the care carried out. To take care like a creator of tension was referred as harmful for health development actions. They are represented by the overwork, by the absence of hiring for a position, human resources and insufficient materials, impossibility of helping a family, specially a mother during the process of hospitalization beside suffering from seeing the affliction of ones and the nurse s frustration for not seeing the pediatrical patient and their family through the systematized assistance. Results show that tensions are overcame by the satisfaction of caring in a critical pediatric atmosphere, but also leaves the nursing team in its working limits. The need of managers to suit an actual policy assistance model for health should be accomplished when a nursing service fragmentation doesn t provide the care guided in its integrality, in humanization and the sysmatization of the nursing assistance.