Revista brasileira de enfermagem
Care for hospitalized children undergoing institutionalization: distress and defensive strategies of nurses
By Silva DGD, Duarte MLC, Dias EP and 4 others.
Abstract
Objectives
to identify and analyze the factors that generate distress among nurses and the defensive strategies used by them when caring for hospitalized children undergoing institutionalization in a pediatric unit.
Method
a qualitative study conducted in a general hospital in southern Brazil with the participation of 11 nurses. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis from the perspective of Christophe Dejours' Psychodynamics of Work theoretical framework.
