Palliative care and the intensive care nurses: feelings that endure

qualitative study, which adopted the theoretical framework of Social Representations, carried out with 30 nurses of the state of Santa Catarina included by Snowball sampling. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews conducted from April to August 2015, organized and analyzed through the Collective Subject Discourse.

Results:

the results showed how central ideas are related to feelings of comfort, frustration, insecurity and anguish, in addition to the feeling that the professional training and performance are focused on the cure.

Conclusion:

the social representations of nurses regarding the feelings related to palliative care are represented mainly by negative feelings, probably as consequence of the context in which care is provided.

Descriptors:
Palliative Care; Nursing Care; Nursing; Social Perception; Intensive Care Units

Question: In your daily work in the Intensive Care Unit, what do/did you feel when providing nursing care to patients under Palliative Care?
Central Ideas	n	%
Central Idea – A: The feeling of comfort when providing nursing care to patients under palliative care	16	51.6%
Central Idea – B: The emotional involvement and the feeling of frustration	7	22.6
Central Idea – C: The lack of information and of communication in the multiprofessional team cause insecurity and anguish at the time of care	6	19.4%
Central Idea – D: The curative professional training and performance	2	6.4%
Total	31	100%

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[1] CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Natyele Rippel Silveira. E-mail: naty_rippel@hotmail.com