The challenges of humanizing in the intensive care unit within the perspectives of health professionals: a literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Emirene Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Leite, Flávia Noleto, Vida, Isabella Alves Soares, Souza, Raiany Rodrigues de, Silva, Fabio José Antônio da, Silva, Raylton Aparecido Nascimento, Lima, Thiago Oliveira Sabino, Santana, Janaina Sousa, Araújo, Paulo da Costa, Abrão, Ruhena Kelber
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/27663
• topic: Humanização; Assistência; Unidade de Terapia Intensiva; Desafios.; Humanization; Assistance; Intensive Care Unit; Challenges.; Humanización; Asistencia; Unidad de Terapia Intensiva; Desafíos.

The practice of humanization in the intensive care unit contributes to the recovery of the patient as a whole, because it is a potentially heavy, exhausting environment with great physical and psychological impacts, requires patient care in addition to its needs restricted to the state of illness, requires full care, not just the patient, but all involved, family and health team. Based on the complexity of materials and human resources of the Intensive Care Unit, health professionals have many challenges in the process of humanization. The objective of this study was to identify the challenges that health professionals face in humanizing in the Intensive Care Unit. This is a bibliographical study, with an integrative and qualitative analysis of the literature available in virtual libraries. It was identified that professionals have many obstacles in the implementation of humanization, in most of the articles found the biggest challenge was work overload, the difficulty of humanization in the second place, and also humanizing challenges such as lack of communication, limitations and ease of professionals, lack of resources, has favored the lack of humanization. Based on the studies, it was observed that there is a great lack of humanization assistance in the intensive care unit, health professionals have great obstacles in this practice, and it is necessary to have a process of humanization in all health sectors, and in the Intensive Care Unit patients need redoubled care because they are critically ill patients.