Psychic suffering of the nursing team in the hospitalized child care

Abstract

 The aim in this study is to understand the psychic suffering of nursing team who care the hospitalized child and to identify the presence of this suffering and the defense strategies used for the workers in the work dynamic. The data was obtained with the nursing professionals in the public hospital of the Paraná west, In the period from 2003 to 2005, analyzed qualitatively doing is an organization of the data in order determined encompassing the whole of the material collected, an initial classification followed by repeated reading of the texts and classification and grouping of topics relevant determining the units of analysis. The psychic suffering occurred to derive from the work organization; the lack of material and human resources, the hospital institution didn’t recognize the work made, the relationship between the nursing team with the children, the family and the multiprofessional team. The defense mechanisms used was the escape, the denial and the banal care. The feelings caused are stress and anxiety.  This study showed the need to rethink the way of the work organization in the the hospitalized child care. 

Key works: Psychological stress; Nursing; Hospitalized child; Work.