Parenting during the child’s hospitalization: model of therapeutic nursing intentions in partnership care

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Paula Cristina Moreira Mosquita de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Paiva, Abel, Pereira, Filipe, Parente, Paulo, Sousa, Paulino
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/cadernosdesaude.2023.11580

Introduction: Parenting refers the responsibilities of being parents of a child throughout their development. It implies an active and proper role in which the parents feel connected to the child and have the knowledge and skills to fulfill the challenges. Sometimes, the health condition of the child requires hospitalization. Living the experience of having a son hospitalized is often difficult and complex. The parents’ attitude when dealing with their son’s hospitalization depends on the personal characteristics of the son, the parents, and the nurses. In that situation, parents’ attitude also depends on the kind of aid they receive from nursing and the child’s health condition. In pediatric units, setting up a care partnership between nurses and parents is the best pathway for achieving better outcomes. Thus, nowadays, parents and nurses needed care partnership because its benefits are well evidenced. Objectives: What is the principal therapeutical intentionality’s of nurses when promoting the care partnership with parents during the child’s hospitalization? Materials and method: To answer that question, we conducted an action-research project involving nurses from a Portuguese hospital’s pediatric unit. Resulted: Seven types of nurses’ intentions emerged: (1) Promotion of parent’s participation in the care related with the son’s developmental stage (usual care); (2) Promotion of parental competencies to perform complex care; (3) Supervising the parent’s participation in complex care in cases of effective parental’s competencies; (4) Improving on the parents mastery on complex care in cases where was identified a potential for enhancement; (5) Reduction on the level of parental role strain in cases of children with permanent special needs by facilitating, during hospitalization, a period of parents’ rest; (6) Enhancing parents mastery to perform complex care; (7) Enhancing parents mastery in promoting of child’s autonomy. Conclusions: In pediatrics’ nursing practice and in the literature, the concept of the care partnership is achieving more emphasis. We need more research to uncover nurses’ intentions behind care plans involving parents’ partnership. This investigation contributes to clarifying the principal therapeutical intentionality’s of nurses when promoting the care partnership with parents during the child’s hospitalization.