CARING FOR A DIABETIC CHILD IN THE LIFE NETWORK

• Main Authors: Eleonor Trevisan, Maria H. Lenardt, Vanda M. G. Jouclas
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 1998-12-01
• Series: Cogitare Enfermagem
• Subjects: Children care; Home nursing; Family; Diabetes mellitus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/ce.v3i2.44317

This study is a practical research which presents, in a descriptive way, the experience of constituting a group of family adult members who are responsible for the home care of a child with Diabetes mellitus. Such study was guided by Martha Rogers’ concepts of Man, Environment and Nursing, as well as Fritjof Capras’s Systemic Conception of Life. The result of this experience enabled the opening of the participants’ energy fields, favouring exchanges in order to harmonise the rhythmicities in their life processes, looking forward greater possibilities to the different interconnections that a diabetic child needs to enhance his/her probability of development to integrate life network.