Enfermagem cuidando do recém-nascido na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal: um olhar ético da ação profissional

• Autor(a) principal: Sá Neto, José Antonio de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11223
• topic: Nursing care; Neonatalogy; Technology; Bioethic; Cuidados de Enfermagem; Neonatologia; Tecnologia; Bioética; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM::ENFERMAGEM PEDIATRICA

This is a qualitative study about experienced actions in the daily routine of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by the nursing staff. It aims to understand implicit ethical aspects in experienced actions of nurses concerning the newborn care. Mehry. Pegoraro, Pessini and others renowned authors were used as theoretical and philosophical reference. The sociological phenomenology of Alfred Schutz was the methodological approach of the study as it seeks the motivation that confirms this care by the intention of nursing actions. The face-to-face approach to people of this study asked the following: Tell me about your experience in taking care of newborns in a NICU routine? Guiding questions of the phenomenological interview were used to achieve the proposed objective: What do you have in mind about taking care of newborns in a NICU? What do you think about when taking care of a newborn in relation to ethics? Sixteen professionals chosen at random of the nursing staff of a public hospital in the city of Rio de Janeiro carried the interviews out. The established criteria of the 196/96 resolution ensured the privacy and anonymity of the respondents and approves the study by the ethics committee on research. Three categories emerged from the analysis of the discourse and they allowed the understanding of ethical aspects of typical actions of the nursing staff in an Intensive Care Unit. These professionals aims to achieve the best care as they wants the newborn left the hospital well. So, they rely on technology in order to value the human perspective of care in the NICU and the ability to act ethically. The research proved that technology is a positive instrument in the intentional design of the nursing staff as it shows professionals who believe that ethical and human aspects help them to do their best. To better understand typical actions and the routine of the nursing staff will enable a critical and reflective evaluation about the appropriateness of technology in the neonatal care as well as the adoption of measures and strategies for the value and the respect of the human life entirely. Ratification of the sensitiveness, intuition and perception of the caregiver provides an individualized and personal care to the newborn and its family. Moreover, it contributes to rethink new ways of care by using art and creativity in adapting and humanizing technologies.