ABSTRACT.
In the Oncology Ward of hospital institutions, aiming humanized care, the performance of professionals from different areas has been desirable. This study aimed to investigate the subjective experience of the different professionals who work in this sector. The research was developed with the participation of 23 professionals from the Oncology area of a public hospital located in Rio Grande do Sul. In this qualitative study, they were interviewed individually. Those interviews were mediated by the presentation of an interactive narrative, with the participants being asked to create an outcome and to freely associate. Two categories were identified, after psychoanalytic consideration, entitled ‘I return the pain to others’ and ‘Dance of solitude’. From those categories, it was possible to identify, respectively, how professionals experience, in their daily work, their relations with patients and with their teammates. It was observed that, for the participants, the daily work is crossed by suffering because they have to deal with the discomfort of their patients, as well as the frequent losses, a suffering that is accentuated by not being able to share it with their peers at work. It is concluded that it is necessary to develop actions, especially the constitution of a clinical setting in which professionals can have affective exchanges with each other, which could, in just one time, help them to deal with the suffering aroused in the Oncology sector as well as help them to feel that they belong to this team made up of different areas of specialty.
Keywords:
Hospital environment; caregivers; suffering