Nurses’ coping with the unexpected death of children and adolescents

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Lígia Maria Monteiro
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Pinto, Cândida Assunção Santos, Gonçalves, Sandra Maria de Barros
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng; por
• Título da fonte: Rev Rene (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/33087
• topic: Pediatric Nursing; Death; Stress Disorders, Traumatic.; Enfermagem Pediátrica; Morte; Transtornos de Estresse Traumático.

Objective: to understand the coping strategies nurses use to cope with unexpected death in pediatrics. Methods: qualitative research involving six nursing professionals working in pediatric emergency and intensive care services. Content analysis was performed. Results: two groups of categories emerged from the data describing coping processes: strategies focused on assessing the situation in which the professionals try, through rational processes, to understand and accept the unexpected death; strategies focused on emotional management, in which the suffering resulting from the confrontation coping with the unexpected death is acknowledged, seeking strategies to better manage the event. Conclusion: the professionals suffer and seek coping mechanisms to manage the process of mourning over the unexpected death of a child/adolescent.