To be at Unit of Intensive Therapy: patient perception <b>[Abstract in English]</b>
Abstract
Objective: The characteristics of a unit of intensive care, the complex and closed environment, the technological resources, the permanence of critical patients and with risk of life, beyond rigid and generally inflexible routines instigated us to know the perceptions of the patients in relation to its experience when interned in a UTI.Methodology: descriptive qualitative boarding. To collect the data we use ourselves the focused interview. Eight patients had been interviewed who had remained interned in a UTI, being the interviews carried through after the high one of the UTI. For analysis of the data the content analysis, according to steps considered for Minayo was used.
Resulted/conclusion: In accordance with what it was displayed by the interviewed ones, we identify two categories: UTI: an surrounding stranger and of mystery, in which it identifies the UTI as an unknown place and little receptive, as synonymous of death and serious illness, recovery and meeting with the life, and as local of suffering; e the nursing assistance: “I was taken care of well”, however... in which if identifies the form as the participants of the study had perceived the cares of nursing excused they.
KEY WORDS: NURSING CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INPATIENTS/psychology.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright
The submission of originals to Scientia Medica implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Scientia Medica as the site of original publication.
Creative Commons License
Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.