The culture in the familiar care to a child victim of burn

Abstract

The care of nursing to a burnt child is straight related to the acceptance of the family, having parents as play fellows and informants of the health conditions of the victim. The study had as objective to understand as the beliefs, values and style of life of the families influence in the care of children victims of burns inpatients in a Burnt Treatment Center. The ethnographic research was accomplished in a Hospital Institution of Urgency and Emergency in the city of Fortaleza-Ceará from April to August of 2008. The collect and analysis of the data were based in the Ethnonursing. The arrangement and analysis of the data attended the following stages: gathering information and documents; to cluster the storage data; contextual analysis of main themes, discoveries of research; theoretical formulations and warnings. From the analysis sprout three cultural rules: the child is very naughty; the severity of the situation; to watch more out for. The study showed that during internment mothers, in spite of having their cultural knowledge, learned a lot, had much uncertainty, and pondered about their care with their children. Therefore, we consider essential that the nurse uses strategies that address on the cultural family in order to take care of an individualized form, creating links with these children and family.