A NURSING TEAM’S EXPERIENCES RENDERING CARE TO CANCER PATIENTS

• Main Authors: Eniva Miladi Fernandes Stumm, Marinês Tambara Leite, Gislaine Maschio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal do Paraná 2008-03-01
• Series: Cogitare Enfermagem
• Subjects: Nursing; Nursing care; Oncology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/ce.v13i1.11955

The term cancer entails a set of diseases that have been having a progressive incidence in the last few years.This study intends to know a nursing team’s experiences in an oncological unit, rendering care to cancer patients. It is aqualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, developed in a Hospital in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Seven nursingprofessionals from the oncological unit participated in the study. Data collection was performed through an open interview,guided by the question: “tell me how it is to take care of cancer patients”. Participant observation was also carried out.Information analysis followed the steps recommended for thematic analysis, resulting in the construction of an analysiscategory, which we called: nursing delivering care and living with oncological patients. Care delivery to oncologicalpatients occurs in an interactional way, in which there are mutual ideas, emotions and feelings’ exchange. For theprofessionals, caring action requires understanding, humanized care delivery and bonding among team, patients andfamily members.