Processos de confronto dos enfermeiros face à morte inesperada de crianças e adolescentes

Lígia Maria Monteiro Lima; Cândida Assunção Santos Pinto; Sandra Maria de Barros Gonçalves

doi:10.15253/2175-6783.20181933087

Authors

Lígia Maria Monteiro Lima Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4556-0485
Cândida Assunção Santos Pinto Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto, Portugal http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4874-6728
Sandra Maria de Barros Gonçalves Serviço de Urgência Pediátrica, Portugal http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4326-0008

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.20181933087

Keywords:

Pediatric Nursing; Death; Stress Disorders, Traumatic.

Abstract

Objective: to understand the coping strategies nurses use to cope with unexpected death in pediatrics. Methods: qualitative research involving six nursing professionals working in pediatric emergency and intensive care services. Content analysis was performed. Results: two groups of categories emerged from the data describing coping processes: strategies focused on assessing the situation in which the professionals try, through rational processes, to understand and accept the unexpected death; strategies focused on emotional management, in which the suffering resulting from the confrontation coping with the unexpected death is acknowledged, seeking strategies to better manage the event. Conclusion: the professionals suffer and seek coping mechanisms to manage the process of mourning over the unexpected death of a child/adolescent.

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