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Semiramis Melani Melo Rocha

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PubMed2005

[Children with cancer and their families].

This study is aimed at reviewing the existing literature about children with cancer and their families in order to identify themes that have been researched and to survey indicators of need, thus giving subsidies for the systematization of nursing care. Systemized data collection was carried out in computerized databases between 1997 and 2002 using the keywords child, cancer, chronic illness/disease, family and nursing. A non-systemized research of scientific publications was also carried out. Results are grouped in three themes: impact of the child's cancer on the family system; adaptation process and coping strategies used by the parents in the face of the illness; and the process of loss and mourning in view of the child's death. The review demonstrated that nursing is constructing specific knowledge about the individual, cultural and regional needs of families of children with cancer, with a view to a nursing assistance that considers care in accordance to the singularity of each case.

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PubMed2004

[Hospitalized child: care sharing between mother and nursing].

This research aimed to verify at what moment, in what kinds of care and in what way mothers are included in care to the hospitalized child and to verify how care is negotiated between nursing team and mothers. The field research was carried out through participant observation of everyday care at a pediatric hospital unit, as well as interviews with mothers and the nursing team. The inclusion of the mother in care has taken place in a subtle way. The mother has taken on procedures that had been part of nursing competence before, concentrating information on the therapeutic process. The lack of a collective therapeutic project from the perspective of family-centered care is one of the obstacles to the involvement of mothers in care. Results demonstrate that the relation between mothers and the nursing team reveal to be complex and influenced by the exercise of power, which results in the need to construct shared care.

Child↗
PubMed2004

[Educational guideline for the maternal orientation concerning the care with preterm infants].

This work aimed at describing the development of educational and instructional material for maternal training, so as to prepare the mother for the preterm infants' discharge from hospital, by means of the participatory methodology. The pedagogical model used was that of education for critical consciousness, based on Paulo Freire. Study participants were two nurses, two nursing auxiliaries and four mothers of preterm babies, which were hospitalized at the Intermediate Care Unit of a university hospital in Ribeirão Preto-SP, Brazil. The participants indicated the subjects of interest for the teaching-learning process, which were grouped into the categories: daily care, feeding, hygiene, special care and family relationship. We decided to develop an educational folder with figures, which could be taken home. This educational and instructional material was produced by the researchers on the basis of literature, their professional experience and on technical and scientific advice from other professionals. The final version of the folder was validated by the participants and now constitutes a creative instrument that can be of help in health education activities oriented towards these clients. According to the participants, the educational material directed the guidelines and helped the mothers to memorize the content that had to be learned.

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PubMed2004

[Journal of the Nursing School of the University of Sao Paulo -- 36 years looking after the quality of nursing care].

REEUSP has been a trimestrial journal since 1998, which publishes 11 to 13 articles per issue on different nursing subareas; most of them on teaching, health technology, adult health (in its different specialties), mental and psychiatric health. The article and research emphasis keeps on the hospital. For being linked to a teaching unit, it presents quality on its publishing; many times produced from thesis and dissertations. It faces the challenge of stimulating the publishing of authors from other institutions; for not becoming endogenous. On the last 10 years, it received and published articles from 18 Brazilian states and several country cities from Sao Paulo State. Its graphic design was also remodeled for 2003, allowing higher clearness and easiness for reading. It accepts exchange with other journals and it is indexed on many basis. It was gotten a C international classification by CAPES.

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PubMed2002

[Maternal care of low-birth weight infants].

This is an exploratory and descriptive study which aimed at characterizing mothers' accounts on the care given to the health of children with low weight at birth during their first and second years of life by means of home interviews with a group of eleven mothers of children from Ribeirão Preto--SP. The mothers pointed to difficulties with breastfeeding, the babies' diet and medication use. They also referred to concerns about intercurrences, re-hospitalizations and psychomotor development, which results in the need for professional support in order to evaluate and follow the growth and development process of children within families' everyday life.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2002

Brazilian mothers' experiences of home care for their low birth weight infants.

PURPOSE: To describe Brazilian mothers' experiences of home care for their low birth weight (LBW) infants. DESIGN: Descriptive. SAMPLE: Eleven Brazilian mothers whose LBW infants were hospitalized at birth and followed up for a period of four weeks. MAIN OUTCOME VARIABLE: Brazilian mothers' recollections about the home care of their infants. RESULTS: The study identified the infants' and mothers' profiles and the mothers' concerns about disruption in attachment due to hospitalization and their infants' growth. After hospital discharge, these mothers mainly worried about their infants' weight gain, breathing, and overall development, as well as breastfeeding, feeding, and medication preparation.

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[Research assisting nursing practice: a philosophical view].

The authors of the present article reflect on the difficulties of nursing research and its relation with its practice, which is based on the philosophy of praxis. Initially, there is a discussion on the relationship between theory and praxis from a philosophical perspective. The authors make a resumed review of nursing knowledge in the last century. Finally, they present the dialectic of interactions as a possibility of advancing beyond the territories of the dialectic of work. According to the authors, complex areas of knowledge related to health/illness/care cannot be exclusively studied by formal sciences or exclusively by biological and social sciences. They believe that a consistent epistemological project has to consider a third area that would include the dialectic of reasoning and the dialectic of representations.

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[Participation and autonomy of mothers in the care of the hospitalized child].

This is a qualitative study whose purpose was to check with mothers the meaning and significance of remaining in the hospital and their participation and autonomy in the care of the hospitalized child. The field research was carried out through participant observation and through interviews with mothers. The inclusion of the mother in the care of the child has been taking place in a subtle way, and the mother has been taking on procedures which nurses were formerly in charge of, concentrating information about the therapeutic process. Nurses establish a hierarchical relation of domination-subordination with the mothers, who create some autonomy breaks in everyday situations. The lack of a collective therapeutic project in a perspective of care focused on the family is one of the obstacles to the involvement of the mother in the assistance.

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[Experience of parents and other family members in the care to children and adolescents after bone marrow transplantation].

The purpose of this study is to describe how parents and other family members of children and adolescents submitted to Bone Marrow Transplantation, specially in the post operative period. Thirteen subjects responsible to the care of eleven patients under 18 years old participated in the study. Authors used semi-structured interviews to collected data. Data were analyzed through a qualitative approach. The following themes were identified: impact of transplantation and family life. Results indicated that due to the complexity of Bone Marrow Transplantation, the knowledge on the family reality is crucial as family plays a fundamental role in patients' quality of life. Therefore, to identify conditions, experiences and the life style of families enable the work based on their real needs, respecting their possibilities and limitations.

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[Family history of children with chronic kidney failure: data collection].

The systematization process of care has as its first step the nursing history. This study aims to present the experience of data collection for care planning involving families of children with Chronic Kidney Failure on peritoneal dialysis. Family Nursing was used as a theoretical reference framework. Data were collected by means of in-depth interviews, documentary analysis, field diary, genogram and ecomap. Study participants were four families. The authors discuss in-depth interviews, its limitations and advantages, the construction of the genogram and ecomap and ethical, legal and social implications. Finally, it is presented general considerations on how to apply these instruments in care delivery involving families of children with Chronic Kidney Failure on peritoneal dialysis.

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[Pediatric nursing and the family approach: contribution to undergraduate teaching].

This work aims at presenting the instruments used in the family nursing approach as depicted in the international literature as well as at providing subsidies for their utilization by Brazilian nursing professionals in family health approaches to child care. The authors present the experience of introducing a methodology for systematized care in Pediatric Nursing programs using instruments for data collection such as the family APGAR, Genogram and Ecomap. They argue that these instruments do not replace the theoretical basis of care or the reason and discernment in order to provide data with meaning and find better solutions to care for children and their family.

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