TERAPIAS INVASIVAS À CRIANÇA COM CÂNCER À LUZ DA FENOMENOLOGIA: O OLHAR DA ENFERMAGEM

Abstract

Nursing is characterized as a caring profession. The professionals develop their work in several instances in the hospital environment, among them, the Intensive Therapy Unit The concern with caring for the caregivers is substantial for the quality of the health service. When it comes to a child with cancer, the mental health of his caregiver is even more primordial. The purpose of this study is to comprehend through the discourses, meanings and possibilities of re-signification of being-nurse experience in professional performance with invasive therapies to the child living with cancer. It is a qualitative research, and it was developed according to the phenomenological method, that prioritizes looking at the experience of the other, its world-lived from the understanding bias. In order to achieve this research, it was used a recorded audio interview that started from a guiding question, which after transcribed in full and literally, were identified the Units of Meaning, enabling the elaboration of the Thematic Categories. Three nurses who develop their activities at the Intensive Care Unit at the Oncology Control Foundation Center of Amazonas were interviewed. The research followed the precepts of CNS 466/12 Resolution that legislates on Research with humans. Three analysis categories were built: being-in-the-world-being-nurse and the importance of the technique; being-in-the-world: the other affects me and being-in-the-world and the connection with the Divine. It is inferred that these experiences are permeated by the multidimensional understanding of the nursing professional and the affectivity present in the relationship of care that is established between the protagonists of this research nurses and children with cancer.

Keywords: Childhood Cancer; Nursing; ICU; Psychology; Phenomenology.